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unk...@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>	Well, anyway, that code is some kind of listing from an Apple II.
>I seem to remember hearing it is actually some DOS (pre-ProDOS times!)
>disassembly or something.. Not sure though.

bri...@bari.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon)
> As I recall (I only saw it once, and on TV at that) it was some DEC
> proprietary language, like FOCAL, wasn't it?  Or was it "real COBOL"?

The code in question is Randy Hyde's commented source code (DOS SOURCE)
to DOS 3.3.  Hyde took a disassembly of the RWTS (read-write track-sector)
routines for DOS 3.3 and commented them up and generally made them usable
to assembly programmers who wanted to modify DOS (be it for personal
masochim or to copy protect products.)  DOS SOURCE was reportedly
forced off the market by Apple Computer (it did disappear very fast.) 
Anyway, the text scrolling off the screen in the Terminator is the
IOB (I/O Byte) declaration section.  The comment format is instantly
recognizable to anyone who has pored over the listings.


Jonathan A. Chandross
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