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Subject: Re: Information on Amiga Technical Reference Seri
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Date: 7 Jun 91 05:09:08 GMT
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In article <1057.284e0dbf@vger.nsu.edu>, manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes),
Norfolk State University) says:

>> I'd actually like to see CBM put the SOURCE CODE to the OS on the disk
>> as well.  It would be a good way to understand the inner workings of
>> each routine that one might call.  As well, maybe we'd see a Berkeley
>> ROM Kernel (a la BSD Unix) :)

>I am glad that you put a smiley on the end.  The last thing we need is
>a public domain version of the kernal.  In fact, I am against Commodore
>releasing the SOURCE CODE to the operating system.  That would be a
>complete disaster.

>ARP was bad enough, a public domain kernal... ack!!!

Oh, come on, where's your hacker spirit? I think the Amiga community
(especially here in the US) could use a little. (Actually a lot!)

TINAF (This is Not a Flame :-))

-- Dan Babcock