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From: mboen@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ROM
Message-ID: <375@nixpbe.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 89 06:37:56 GMT
References: <8905171833.AA01200@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: Nixdorf Computer AG, Paderborn, Germany
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cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:

>   .....                                            .  If that is
>illegal then wouldn't it be illegal to modify the carburator in my new
>Ford, etc...?  Oh yeah, this guy was from Atari.  A few other users saw
>things my way.  I personally thought that after the purchase of my
>computer it was my right to change/alter/modify any part of the
>computer that I saw fit.  What do you think about this?  Myself and a
>   ......

What?? Disassembling the ROMS ILLEGAL?. Well, then there's a very illegal
book around over here in Germany, called something like (and don't nail
me on this one) 'GEMDOS - the complete listing'. Actually it's two books:

part 1: bios, xbios, ...
part 2: ?????

I also know of a guy who starting off from this book adapted TOS to his own
likes, fixed some bugs and then renamed the whole operating system to 'KAOS'
(don't ask me why). The patches were described in an article in c't.

So, if these books can be published, I don't see why disassembling the ROMS
at home should be illegal.

I hope this helps.

Martin
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