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by i336_ 3827 days ago
Oh :(

Here's the quote:

> Like kamelito already said: this stuff hasn't been leaked now, it's been leaked in the late nineties. Rumors have it that Tyschtschenko handed out the sources to a whole bunch of people in Germany (in addition to Phase5, which already had them) to make sure they don't get lost during the next bankruptcy.

> These sources were all over the warez boards in 1997 or 1998.

> It's the original 3.1 sources from Commodore, they require quite an exotic setup to compile (an obscure SunOS/Solaris based Cross-Compiler amongst other things, IIRC), Olaf Barthel had to spend quite a few hours to make them compile/assemble with modern tools before they could be used as the base for OS 3.5+.

Heh.

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I love this one from further on in the thread:

> AmigaOS is not designed and implemented in a manner which would facilitate testing.

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Also, HN (Arc) doesn't use HTML, and got completely confused by the URL.

Worth reading! http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=80875