knudsen@ihwpt.ATT.COM (mike knudsen) (04/09/88)
[Previous discussion on how Tandy never supplies upgrades to Coco
software, except for after-the-fact notices about the L1
OS9 upgrades.]
OK, I'll be first to say that upgrades to Coco software
are a joke. In fact, that's one reason I ruled out selling my music
program thru Tandy -- the inability to supply upgrades or even
new upgraded versions.
However, if you get the Developer's Kit you have to admit
that the new RMA (C.asm) and RLINK (C.link) are upgrades
to the C compiler complex (yes, it's complex!).
The new linker especially has shed a lot of buggy quirks.
Now, if they'd just upgrade C.opt -- it optimizes bugs into
your code sometimes. Did it to me again two nites ago.
PS: Anyone know anyone with the "adult" version of Microware's
6809 C compiler (you know, for Gimix, SSB, Helix SS-50 boat anchor
boxes)? Wonder if M'ware has ever upgraded it for its own customers,
but not for us Tandy toadies? (I'll bet M'ware enjoys dealing
with Tandy execs as much as we enjoy their saleslifeforms --
wonder what Tandy paid extra to have the L1 disk drivers crippled?).
Anyway, I suspect that Microware is concentrating all their efforts
on the 68K versions, and that the 6809 stuff gets dusted off only
when Tandy offers big bucks, and then the job gets assigned to their
newest employees. But of course if not for Tandy, nobody at
M'ware could even find the 6809 sources in the basement by now,
so why complain...?
--
Mike J Knudsen ...ihnp4!ihwpt!knudsen Bell Labs(AT&T)
Delphi: RAGTIMER CIS: <memory failure, too many digits>
"Just say NO to MS-DOS!" "OS/2 == 1/2 of an OS"blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) (04/09/88)
In article <2471@ihwpt.ATT.COM> knudsen@ihwpt.ATT.COM (mike knudsen) writes: > Wonder if M'ware has ever upgraded it for its own customers, >but not for us Tandy toadies? They supply the changes to tandy, but if tandy dons't deside to distribute them... >wonder what Tandy paid extra to have the L1 disk drivers crippled?). I think it was included in what they charged tandy for doing the port. It was done at tandy's request! > But of course if not for Tandy, nobody at >M'ware could even find the 6809 sources in the basement by now, They still make bucks on the 09 and 68k controlers you don't usually hear much about. I wonder how popular CDI will get -- just imagine thousands of people with their disk drive running a multi-user OS on a messydos or half-os computer. (CDI is a standard for combining audio, vidio, and programs on a CD. The controler runs os9/68k.) -- Bob Larson Arpa: Blarson@Ecla.Usc.Edu blarson@skat.usc.edu Uucp: {sdcrdcf,cit-vax}!oberon!skat!blarson Prime mailing list: info-prime-request%fns1@ecla.usc.edu oberon!fns1!info-prime-request