Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!pwp From: pwp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Paul Purdom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: dissassembly Message-ID: <33082@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 15 Jan 90 17:33:02 GMT References: Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 12 The question of whether or not to up grade a ROM operating system so that old programs work is delicate. Many users would like to beable to up grade to remove bugs in their operating system without losing the ability to run their old comerical programs. Their needs should be balanced aagainst the difficulty (or impossibility) of fixing the bugs while still being able to run old programs. The benefit of each change needs to be compared with the trouble it causes users of old programs. For the most part, people who write their own programs like improvement, but people who buy programs like stability. I do both myself, so I feel for the people that have to decide what to do in each particular case.