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From: RiddCJ@computer-science.birmingham.ac.UK (Chris Ridd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: suggestion
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Date: 17 Dec 89 15:03:15 GMT
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In digest #801, Howard Chu wrote:
>... How about a team of ST programmers getting
>together to analyze TOS 1.4, and publish their specs?

Funnily enough, I was thinking along similar lines a few days ago!  Since
it seems that we have a lot of TOS and GEM gurus reading the net, why doesn't
everybody write in and contribute information (uses, bugs etc etc) on all
the functions on the ROMs (not just 1.4 necessarily)?
I don't think we need to produce full specs for the ROMs, which would probably
take too long anyway, but specs for the standard library functions would be
really good. (I mean GEMDOS, BIOS, XBIOS, LineA, VDI, AES).
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