🚀 go-pugleaf

Landon Dyer says:
> Slight nitpick: Those aren't "don't care" bits --- they are
> reserved and should be zero.  These bits are documented in the ST
> BIOS Reference Manual....

Maybe in your version, but not in the one I paid $300 for with my
Developer's Kit.  In fact, I've never seen the "ST BIOS Reference
Manual"; the documentation I have on the BIOS comes from "The
Hitchhiker's Guide".  How can I get reference manual or an updated
"Hitchhiker's Guide"?

*** FLAME ON ***
Why does Atari seem to work against its developers?  I called Atari
almost a year ago trying to find out how to read the partition sector
on the hard disk and was told that that information was not public
and that they would not tell me.  Now I know the answer because
of the kindness of Schoepf, but no thanks to Atari.  Similarly,
people at Atari have been booting from their hard disks for months
but they wouldn't let anyone else in on the act.  I now am also
booting from my hard disk, but courtesy of Konrad Hahn, not Atari.

Come on, guys.  Why do you want your developers wasting their time
reconstructing information and recreating programs that you already
have in-house?  Wouldn't you rather that they be spending their
time on nifty new software that will sell more machines?
*** FLAME OFF ***

--Mike Fischer  <fischer@yale.arpa>
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