Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watarts!rmaranta From: rmaranta@watarts.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: GEM bugs Message-ID: <8915@watarts.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 14:54:45 EST Article-I.D.: watarts.8915 Posted: Fri Dec 12 14:54:45 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 03:32:55 EST References: <837@husc6.UUCP> Reply-To: rmaranta@watarts.UUCP (richard maranta) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 16 In article <837@husc6.UUCP> grunau_b@husc4.UUCP (justin grunau) writes: > >Basically, I suspect the bugs have something to do with memory getting used >up and not released when various programs terminate.... It seems to me that the single most glaring bug in GEMDOS is with its memory allocation/deallocation. With all of the OS experience under DRI's collective belt, I don't see why this is. Just trying to use dynamically-allocated lists forces one to write a custom, array-based, pseudo-allocation scheme. Add to this the hard drive performance (or lack thereof), the file limits, the extraordinarily long pause after a program is loaded while GEMDOS does its relocating stuff, .... ARG! Please, Atari, don't leave us with a half-finished product! Please finish up what DRI started (and left half-done)! Jonathan Fischer