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From: c60b-at@buddy.Berkeley.EDU (John Kawakami -0^0-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Changes/fixes to OS
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Date: 1 Mar 88 00:51:23 GMT
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In article <993@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>
>It is impossible to estimate the damage done to version-independent
>programming by Apple and Atari when they published the "magic peeks and
>pokes" of their systems.  Remember when an OS call on an Apple ][
>consisted of a branch into ROM? The effects linger on... 
>
I would call it the lesser of two evils rather than damage.  Without
these hardwired os calls, lots of memory would have been wasted on
implementing a portable os that really had nowhere to go.  Without
these memory maps there may never have been a home computer (read
home vid-game machine) revolution.
And yes,  the effects linger on much to the chagrin of many CIS
departments across the globe :-)


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