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From: gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ROM disassembly for TOS -- A suggestion.
Message-ID: <1992@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 89 00:15:59 GMT
References: <8909091247.AA16274@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <9531@chinet.chi.il.us> <1640@ns.network.com> <4669@hall.cray.com>
Reply-To: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia
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In article <4669@hall.cray.com> rosenkra@hall.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz) writes:
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>though john's suggestion is (probably) legal (i think i've seen these sorts
>of programs for the PC), the general idea is for atari to freely distribute
>the code to either 1) developers for a small fee, 2) all for a small fee.
>what is the big problem? everyone with an ST HAS the code on very accessible
>ROMs.

Atari distributes source for the BIOS and XBIOS in the dev kit docs.

From what they've said, they DON'T OWN the source to the VDI, AES, and
GEMDOS. I have gathered this from comments made here and elsewhere.
They have been fixing bugs by decompiling pieces of it. [If I'm wrong,
someone please correct me...]

So, that's the big problem. Perhaps.


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Greg Lindahl
gl8f@virginia.edu                                             I'm not the NRA.