juancho@dgp.toronto.edu (John Buchanan) (08/17/88)
I know that it is silly to comment on a subject that has been beaten to
death as much as this subject. But I can't resist.
I do not understand why the developers who were smart enough to
develop their own work arounds for Malloc cannot stop using their code and
just start using Malloc again. In my mind I would believe Atari more if
they put their foot down and developed a RELIABLE(Not necessarily good) os
and laid down the law about rules and not suporting programs that do not
follow them.
(I am sure that there are many reasons that each developer will cite and I
realize that this does not address the issue of binaries that will break
under the release of a new os.)
On another note, it was very interesting to see the commodore booth
in Atlanta (SigGraph 88) and also to notice that there was no atari booth.
I was very disappointed to see this, and am wondering if there is any
significance to the fact that a company which is trying to sell a computer
as a graphics machine does not invest in a booth in the foremost graphics
conference in the world. (Just thinking aloud)
John W. Buchanan Dynamic Graphics Project
Computer Systems Research Institute
University of Toronto
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