Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu From: bammi@dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu (Jwahar R. Bammi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ROM disassembly for TOS 1.4 Message-ID: <529@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> Date: 5 Sep 89 07:18:57 GMT References: <9401@chinet.chi.il.us> <1666@atari.UUCP> <71359@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <1677@atari.UUCP> Sender: news@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu Reply-To: bammi@dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu (Jwahar R. Bammi) Organization: Case Western Reserve University Lines: 17 In-reply-to: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) In article <1677@atari.UUCP>, kbad@atari (Ken Badertscher) writes: >root@yale.UUCP (Root Of All Evil) writes: > >as it would to better document TOS. Given the choice, I'd rather see that >effort go into better TOS documentation. Dunno about this. The version of the developer kit that was first shipped to us came with full rom listing in english. i can honestly say that we learnt more from those listings than any of the other stuff atari shipped in the kit. Why they stopped that prctice is beyond me, and what perplexes me more is the present short-sightedness. Come on guys, take a look at unix. think how it got to where it is in the first place. Next take a look at the pace of Gnu development. Sure someone has to filter the gems from the crud ... bang: {any internet host}!dsrgsun.ces.CWRU.edu!bammi jwahar r. bammi domain: bammi@dsrgsun.ces.CWRU.edu GEnie: J.Bammi