#2286 Bridge $1595???
06-Dec-88 20:54:03
Sb: #24942-#2286 Bridge $1595???
Fm: microsmiths 76004,1766
To: New Horizons Software 76004,2021
I'm not a defender of the V1.3 release, I agree completely that there
should have been a new WorkBench released. This is going to become even
more clear when WorkBench comes out of ROM in V1.4, and suddenly there are
a lot of applications which can no longer boot on the system because
"LOADWB" won't do anything, since there will be no code in ROM to run.
I guess I have a different view on "What is a CLI thing". To me, the DOS
is one of the system flaws; the filesystem is one part of DOS which has now
begun to be addressed with FFS. The CLI is the major impediment to fixing
the rest of the DOS, because the CLI programs use all of the underlying,
undocumented functionality in the BCPL GlobVec. Until the CLI and related
programs are replaced, the underlying DOS cannot be fixed. Commodore
didn't address this in V1.3, but perhaps will in V1.4.