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From: pwp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Paul Purdom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.6...
Keywords: TOS source
Message-ID: <33087@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 90 17:53:14 GMT
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Having just posted a note saying how I feel for those of you that must
maintains TOS, let me also say that I think it would be helpful to release
the source for TOS (or as much as possible if Atari does not own it all). I
don't think Atari has much to lose from copies of the ST (my guess is that if
someone came out with a copy, ST sales would go up). Problems from bad code
being written would be offset by occasional good suggestions for improvements
(UNIX did not start out all that great). I think that Atari only needs to
worry about the bad code that would end up in successful programs. Most of
the bad code will have no effect and future operating system suggestions.

I remember learning a lot by reading disassembled code for the first Radio
Shack computer.