Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ptsfa!jmc From: jmc@ptsfa.UUCP (Jerry Carlin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Beckemeyer software -- MT C-Shell Message-ID: <1962@ptsfa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 17:18:50 EST Article-I.D.: ptsfa.1962 Posted: Fri Dec 19 17:18:50 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 02:15:28 EST References: <3559@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <1746@homxc.UUCP> <501@eneevax.UUCP> Reply-To: jmc@ptsfa.UUCP (Jerry Carlin) Distribution: na Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA Lines: 28 Keywords: MT C-SHELL Yet Another Opinion: I have MT C-SHELL and liked it well enough to buy the Hard Disk Cache product which has worked perfectly. MT C-SHELL is imperfect and does need work. On the other hand, it has a large number of commands that work just fine in single user mode (I had problems after "init2"). Beckemeyer has tried to do something very difficult - put a multi user OS in the same address space as underlying single tasking TOS/GEM - not something faced by OS9. The result is a "pioneering" program and the usual accompaning arrows in the back are the result. Since the first release of IBM MS-DOS (remember) had a BASIC with a bad error is only one of a long list of what version 1.0 of any program is like, I would state the MT C-SHELL is no worse than any Microsoft/IBM/... product. Given that, if you don't like version 1 product, wait until 1.01/1.1/2.0. One final note, I've read that a Microsoft/IBM MS-DOS 3.0 version had a backup/restore program that had a bad bug, maybe its even worse than I've just said. Let's all have a cup of Christmas cheer to Saint Murphy - our omnipresent benefactor :-) -- voice= 415 823-2441 uucp={ihnp4,dual,qantel}!ptsfa!jmc