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From: rosenkra@hall.cray.com (Bill Rosenkranz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ROM disassembly for TOS 1.4
Message-ID: <4675@hall.cray.com>
Date: 12 Sep 89 23:11:14 GMT
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Reply-To: rosenkra@hall.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc., Mendota Heights, MN
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In article <3914@wpi.wpi.edu> jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka) writes:
=In article <4630@hall.cray.com> rosenkra@hall.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz) writes:
=>do these include src code? i thought not.
=
= [he describes a few headers and a driver example]

i mean the entire OS, not just a few header files. atari provides all the 
header files ON DISK that u need with the dev kit. i mean src to the BIOS
of the computer...

my admitedly quick glances at the ROM kernel and other amiga books looked 
pretty good, but it would be impossible to see how accurate the documentation
is.

=This particular book cost me only $34.95...

if you get all 4 or 5 amiga books (readily available in many bookstores)
you end up paying over $100 (not bad, actually) but you get no compiler.
atari $300 is actually quite reasonable by comparison, especially since
atari decoupled docs from compiler in the dev kit. (i have the original,
so i don't know how things work now w.r.t. dev kit).

=| John Dutka         | "No matter how big a straw, you can't suck water up |
=| jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu |  more than 34 feet."                                |
=| jdutka@wpi.bitnet  |     -A WPI PROFESSOR WHO WISHES TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS |


-bill
rosenkra@hall.cray.com


(BTW: does anyone know if MINIX-ST uses BIOS/XBIOS/GEMDOS? i suspect it
uses BIOS/XBIOS and does its own GEMDOS. can u still get at line-A from
minix? some day i'll get around to buying it...)