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- From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying????
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.131715.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 17:17:15 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.230955.15392@zooid.guild.org>
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- In article <1992Sep8.230955.15392@zooid.guild.org>, Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org> writes:
- > I have to disagree with you TOTALLY with MultiTOS and OS/2 2.0 being similar.
-
- True. MultiTOS is a lot smaller and faster.
-
- > as nice as OS/2 2.0? NO, it will never be. The early beta versions of
- > MultiTOS were slow, unreliable and unstable.
-
- Gee, imagine that -- unstable beta versions of software (sarcasm alert for
- the humor impaired). That's why they call it "beta" software. That's also
- why it's only available right now to selected developers. (I guess you
- must be one of those selected developers, huh?)
-
- > Nothing much has really changed.
-
- Oh, I see; you work for Atari in the software development department, so
- you know exactly what the latest versions of MultiTOS look like... and,
- of course, you know that the released version of MultiTOS is going to
- be just like the beta versions (even though every beta version has had
- a very large number of changes from the previous version?). (Another
- sarcasm alert should go here, I guess.)
-
- I'm constantly amazed at how people look at out of date, pirated copies
- of early beta test software and immediately decide that the final version
- is going to be just the same. And then wonder why Atari doesn't release
- such software to more people...
- --
- Eric R. Smith email:
- Dept. of Mathematics eric.smith@uwo.ca
- University of Western Ontario
-