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- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 14:24:41 MST
- From: shenson@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Stephen Henson)
- Message-Id: <9403192124.AA29016@nyx10.cs.du.edu>
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- of Denver. The University has neither control over nor
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- To: bammi@cadence.com, mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
- Subject: RE: GCC 2.5.8
-
- Speaking from a personal point of view MiNT may not be a dog but the way it has
- been handled by Atari is shall we say (being diplomatic) odd. Take my Minixfs
- for example. The standard approved MiNT is 1.04 which has a horrible bug which
- Minixfs can't wrok around that makes external filesystems unstable. On top of
- that it looks like MultiTOS crashes the update daemon.
- So if you want to use Minixfs you need to recompile newer MiNT and not
- run MultiTOS. This cuts down any Minixfs userbase considerably, it simply can't
- be made 'plug and play' because of the necessity of MiNT recompilation. So any
- hope of reducing my losses by making the thing shareware seem doomed to failure.
- One of these days I'm going to give up an dump ST's entirely.
- As for new hardware well lets just say IMHO that whoever designed the
- Falcon wants their backside kicking (HARD!).
- Steve.
-