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- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!tarpit!bilver!emtwo!paulfitch
- From: paulfitch@emtwo.UUCP (Paul M Fitch)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
- Subject: Wheres the BEEF?
- Keywords: Windio
- Message-ID: <33@emtwo.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 02:28:34 EDT
- Distribution: world
- Summary: Please stop changeing windio.
- Organization: Pauls Center for the Study of MM/1s
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- Dear Kevin,
- This is a short note BEGGING you to stop changeing the Windio
- drivers every couple of days. We want a stable windowing system, that
- is NOT going to be obselete next week. We would like you to bite the
- bullet, and ship a version of WINDIO that will not be changed for at
- least (2) TWO months. During that time, you could accept bug reports,
- produce REAL documentation, yet add NO new 'features'.
- Bells and Whistles are nice, but lets be realistic. At this rate
- you are never going to get this thing into a 'finished' state.
- I am a proud MM/1 owner, but I NEED a stable platform. At this time,
- I don't have that. I have in my possession (5) seperate versions of Windio
- rangeing from editions 17 thru 41. I have heard talk about editions 46
- and/or 47. Thats all fine and dandy, but this has been going on for over
- a year now. Please stop, and ship something that we can all be reasonably
- sure will operate properly.
- Improvements are nice, but with untested features, and no documentation
- to speak of, they are quickly becoming to hard to keep track of. If the
- MM/1 is ever going to be sold to non-gurus, you're going to have to hop
- off the 'creeping feature-itis' train.
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- Sincerely,
- Paul M. Fitch Jr.
- Applied OS9 BBS
- emtwo@Delphi.com
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