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Article #31427Re: Atari no-support?/In defense of Atari
From: John Buchanan
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1988 13:15
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1988 13:15
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In article <3967@cup.portal.com> Thomas_E_Zerucha@cup.portal.com writes:
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>Remember that Atari didn't write GEM for the 68000, DRI did. If you program
>professionally you will realize the difficulty of simply picking up someone
>elses code and trying to "fix all the little bugs". If it is/was as simple
>as you make out, why don't you write a patch that goes in the auto folder
>and fixes all these bugs?
No Source code. Gone are the days that systems are written and
debugged in Machine Language. (At least I thought that they were)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!dgp.toronto.edu!juancho From: juancho@dgp.toronto.edu (John Buchanan) Subject: Re: Atari no-support?/In defense of Atari Message-ID: <8803221315.AA07536@caboto.dgp.toronto.edu> Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI References: <148leigh@byuvax.bitnet> <2064@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <2783@druhi.ATT.COM> <3967@cup.portal.com> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 88 08:15:58 EST