CompuServe Thread

ARP 1.3 and Amy 3000

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#17793From: SyndesisJul 14, 1990 1:33 PM
Lots of things are broken on the A3000. We've gone through three A3000s, trying to get them to work reliably with motherboard expansion memory. Some programs hang randomly. Don't blame ARP yet.
#17806From: Doug TittleJul 15, 1990 1:42 PM
Sad to hear about your A3000 experience. Don't know whether to be sad about the number of broken programs or encouraged about broken programs not remaining so. Was sort of disappointed were it ARP per se, as I have been most impressed with the coding so far as functionality goes. Would somehow break my image of MicroSmiths for the code to have been goofy on 680×0's. Does this mean that C-A has messed with the documented stable WB/OS functions again? If so, …. Hope they will at least fix the existing A3000's! Thanks for the reply! Doug Tittle
#17810From: Dave LoveJul 16, 1990 12:49 AM
I've not had a problem using the Arp commands on my 3000, at least not on the V1.3 side. Wish I could say the same thing about my bridgeboard… – Dave
#17839From: SyndesisJul 18, 1990 11:18 AM
I look at it this way: They needed to ship the A3000. WB 2.0 had to go with it. They couldn't ship with something called 'preliminary 2.0', so they called it 'final 2.0.' It's not in ROM yet, on the A3000, it's loaded from hard disk. So I wouldn't call it "documented stable" just yet, especially considering the magnitude of the bugs we've seen so far in code that wasn't documented as potentially dangerous under 2.0.
#17864From: Tom EshelmanJul 20, 1990 6:35 PM
John: I saw your note to Doug Tittle. I've had a question for a long time, and you may be just the man who knows the answer: It's now all but forgotten by most users, because they long ago gave up, but Is the DoCollision() graphics routine finally fixed under WB 2.0? Thanks and regards Tom