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- From: crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: A dumb question!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.160411.16781@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 16:04:11 GMT
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- In <9207281422.AA11174@brachot.jct.ac.il> bruck@BRACHOT.JCT.AC.IL (Itay Chamie1) writes:
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- >Alot of times I ask myself the question: How was the Rev A OS written? I mean,
- >the Atari assembler wasn't out yet, so did they use calculators? And how was
- >Rev A BASIC created? And how was the Atari Assemler/Editor written?
- >Were all the Rev A bugs (both in the OS and in BASIC) there just because they
- >were written in unreliable ways? (not using an assembler?)
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- I remember reading somewhere that they were written by OSS (under contract
- for Atari) using an assembler on an Apple II. This may go for DOS 1.0, as
- well. (BTW: Where could I get a copy of DOS 1?)
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- --PC
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