Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!apple!fox!portal!atari!kbad From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: dissassembly Message-ID: <1967@atari.UUCP> Date: 16 Jan 90 02:58:17 GMT References: Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 20 V067MAJP@UBVMSC.CC.BUFFALO.EDU (Arion) writes: | What I don't understand is why don't the excellent development team at Atari | just go ahead and make the changes and break all the programs that don't follow | the rules. Believe me, Arion, it's very very tempting at times. Especially when you see some of the really silly things that some developers do to break the rules. You want to punish them. But in fact, the end users are punished worse if Atari breaks programs which break the rules. All a user knows is that his favorite program doesn't work any more. If the company that made it is no longer in business, that user is really up the creek. Fortunately, we are not constrained to strict compatibility with the TTOS, so we may be able to fix some of the things we were previously unable to fix. -- ||| Ken Badertscher (ames!atari!kbad) ||| Atari R&D System Software Engine / | \ #include