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From: daved@cscnj.csc.COM (Dave Douglass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ROM disassembly for TOS
Summary: Atari should provide a ROM disassembly
Message-ID: <281@cscnj.csc.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 89 18:10:17 GMT
References: <8909091247.AA16274@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Computer Sciences Corp., Piscataway NJ
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If I paid for and own a computer, I want to know EVERYTHING about it:
hardware specs, schematics, ROM disassembly, etc.  I would resent any
attempts by the maker to keep this information from me.  Granted, I
would probably have to pay for this information, but I would still
want it to be available.

Only a bozo would intentionally use the ROM disassembly to write a
piece of code that 'broke the rules' and then expect to distribute it.
If you bought the software, then I guess you're a bozo too.  But
there is no sense in making the rest of us suffer just to keep a
few bozos from clowning around...... :-)

I want an official, commented disassembly of TOS 1.4 from Atari.  Who
knows, maybe I'll want to build an Atari DMA -> chimpanzee brain 
interface that will be require me to write some custom patches to
the ROM.  I want to be able to do this on MY computer.
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Dave Douglass  Computer Sciences Corp  Piscataway, NJ  08854
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