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AmigaDOS 2.0 and CBM

    20-Aug-91 08:08:28
Fm: Gregory B. Tibbs 73767,456
To: Rick Cross 70700,2760
Rick, What can I say? Last year the tone from CATS was to develop all new software for 2.0. It changed this spring to develop for 2.0, but make sure you work with 1.3. 2.0 has so many new features that are not in 1.3 that developers have to stay with the core of what is still common with 1.3 or else re-write everything within the application from scratch to duplicate the additional 2.0 features. I don't know how many, but some will want to write just for 2.0 as it makes their job a whole bunch easier. Very few people will go to the extreme of rewriting the features for 1.3. This leaves a potential compatibility gap for 1.3 users who try to run 2.0 software. -Greg I'm of the opinion that anything that hurts the euro-market at all will be nixed. Limiting future software available to the euro-market will have some effect. -Greg