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From: dlm@druhi.ATT.COM (Dan Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: bios function 0x7f
Message-ID: <3774@druhi.ATT.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 88 16:53:16 GMT
References: <1263@atari.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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in article <1263@atari.UUCP>, apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) says:
> Great! This is exactly the kind of "It works, so use it" philosophy
> which makes it so hard to improve TOS in a backward-compatible way. 
> Please do not rely on crap like this in your programs.  If you do, don't
> expect them to work in the future.  Maybe I should make sure the hack
> described above stops working, but I'm not vindictive or petty, so I
> won't. 

	It just thrills me to see Atari programmers saying they will
break things just for fun.  But they are never petty or vindictive.


	Of course the fact that this was done about 4 years ago, when no
one at Atari would admit that people might need to patch bios/xbios
code, doesn't matter.  Or the fact that 2 years ago an Atari programmer 
said this was a useful feature and would be left in.  Oh no, such
ancient history is unimportant.  What matters is that the current
programmers don't like it.

	Try checking the background on things before you start
complaining.  There are a lot of things that happened before you started
at Atari which you don't know about.


				Dan Moore
				AT&T Bell Labs
				Denver
				dlm@druhi.ATT.COM
					or
				dlm@druwy.ATT.COM