Apple II DOS source code released by Computer History Museum

Re:Apple II DOS source code released by Computer History Museum by anemic on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @06:57PM (#6722341)

I like how the meeting minutes(1) from 1978 resemble software development meetings of today. Especially Paul (Laughton) did have the same mentality as programmers today:

  Nobody who has looked into the DOS is sure why bug #2 exists

  Paul felt that bug #3 was trivial and he already knew how to fix 
  it.

  Paul said that he could spend either3 to 4 days documenting the DOS, 
  or he could fix the bugs, and wanted to know which we wanted.

  Paul still expressed some doubt as to what was causing bug #5, and 
  bug #2 was a mystery.

(1)https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3data.computerhistory.org/atchm/do...

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Re:Apple II DOS source code released by Computer History Museum by thearn4 on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @07:32PM (#6722503)

No kidding. You could replace "DOS" with "______", then fill in any software project, and it would sound pretty spot on.

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Re:Apple II DOS source code released by Computer History Museum by pjmlp on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @03:56AM (#6724102)

I will continue to be like that until software development takes quality seriously and be accountable for defects, like in other industries.

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