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Re: bios function 0x7f

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From: Ralph P. Sobek
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1989 18:32
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In article <3186@sugar.uu.net>, peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
| Moral: Atari should say "the following programs are going to break in rev
| such-and-such of TOS. Other programs that make this, thato, or the other
| assumption will also break. We're giving you X months warning. These changes
| are necessary to fix the a, b, and c bugs and to add these enhancements...".
| 
| Then DO it. Fix it. It's like going cold turkey, but at some point you just
| have to stop throwing good money after bad.
| -- 

I agree emphatically!!  Yes, even if some of my nice PD programs that
I've collected would crash.

--ralph
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!inria!laas!ralph
From: ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: bios function 0x7f
Summary: I agree!!
Message-ID: <272@laas.laas.fr>
Date: 10 Jan 89 18:32:26 GMT
References: <1263@atari.UUCP> <3774@druhi.ATT.COM> <1268@atari.UUCP> <3186@sugar.uu.net>
Organization: LAAS-CNRS Toulouse France
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