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From: cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: clist.library ???
Message-ID: <49670@sun.uucp>
Date: 15 Apr 88 10:31:30 GMT
References: <8804121256.AA15648@MATH.Tau.Ac.IL> <49212@sun.uucp> <5689@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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Chuck McManis (yours truly) wrote :
>>Don't bother. The clist stuff was pulled out in 1.2 because *no one* uses
>>it and it they needed the ROM space.  [ ... ]

In article <5689@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	Then why didn't they relegate it to the WorkBench disk, rather than
>toss it completely?  I imagine that it has *some* sort of use; otherwise
>they wouldn't have put it in the system in the first place.

According to the 'lore' (the generic name for those Amiga stories one hears
at the Oasis after the {ex}Amiga employees have comfortably consumed a 
few beers) the clist.library was created for *one* purpose, a version of
BASIC that was never released. When 1.2 was in process they needed the
ROM space. Again, there is no known use for the clist.library.



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