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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
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Posted: Fri Dec 12 14:54:45 1986
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <837@husc6.UUCP> grunau_b@husc4.UUCP (justin grunau) writes:
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>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