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- From: Julian_Reschke@ms.maus.de (Julian Reschke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: TT Unix ASV
- Message-ID: <A47699@MS.maus.de>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 20:19:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: MS.A47699
- References: <A6133@HB.maus.de>
- Organization: MausNet
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- Markus Wenzel (wenzel@marsu.tynet.sub.org) wrote:
- >All development *done*? Man, are you kidding?
- >A product like this is never finished.
- >I saw the latest release (I hope it was) at Atari fair, and the
- >mouse driver was as damned as before, you could hang up the system
- >for some ten seconds by simply moving the mouse from one window
- >to another while the computer was busily counting numbers in a
- >shell script...
- >Furthermore, it still comes along with GCC 1.39 - these days most
- >people use 2.2.2. OK, you can compile it yourself, but I think
- >it reflects what the guys from Atari think about updating.
-
- I hate to disagree, but that's true.
-
- The whole ASV project is entirely unprofessional. The X is very
- clumsy (as compared to a SUN 3/60), especially the mouse driver
- (like he said). Tools are outdated, online manuals imcomplete,
- no X11R5 and so on.
-