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In article <1990Sep7.090650.2931@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> edp367s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.ae (Rik Harris) writes:

> It is _guaranteed_ to make this software break on future models of the same
> machine.  People whine that Commodore, or Atari, or whoever has made their
> machine incompatible, when it is generally the software producers who can't
> be bothered making their software use the documented addresses and routines.

What can a company do to prevent this?  Do any other computer
companies enforce their rules?  How?  It would be great if you could
run a program, insert a disk, and have a thumbs-up or thumbs-down icon
appear depending on if the program is judged "well behaved" or not.
This, of course, is impossible.

Maybe the tools that are provided (most require an MMU, but not all)
should become more accessible to the common people [Fish Disk?]?  I
don't know if C-A would do it; but I would think it would be a good
idea.

-Tom
P.S.  I know that certain software houses would HATE this idea.
Imagine their customer support lines being tied up with "Hey, I ran
MemMunge while running your program and I found the following bugs..."
-- 
Tom Limoncelli
List addresses in a .sig?  Yeck.  If "reply" doesn't work my other
addresses won't work either.  Aww heck.  Try: limonce@pilot.njin.net