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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEMDOS source, (Was Re: Changing  to / in TOS)
Message-ID: <979@atari.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 88 22:32:23 GMT
References: <1988Feb10.091947.13443@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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in article <1988Feb10.091947.13443@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, 
juancho@dgp.toronto.edu (John Buchanan) says:

> In article <1265@netmbx.UUCP> hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) writes:
>>I just spent 68.00 Deutsche Mark for a C-Source of Gemdos published here
>>in Germany and like some other people I will try to compile my own TOS,
>>if possible at all.
> 	Where can we get C sources for gemdo[s] in North America.  How much
> is 68.00 Deutsche Mark?

If Atari Germany sold the source to Gemdos, it overstepped the bounds
of its authority.  I believe that we do not have the right to distribute
source code to Gemdos, which is, originally, a DRI product.

You can't get it (legally) in North America.

I urge you not to try, because it will create such chaos.  Atari cannot
be expected to support an OS if everybody with a C compiler can create
his own version.  Please be patient: I'm not kidding when I say the
new GEMDOS will be out soon.  (By "soon" I don't mean "next week."
I mean "sooner than you could get the source, figure it out, make any
useful changes, and debug them to the point that you would trust your
hard disk's file structure to it.")

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