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- From: i9566249@unicorn.it.wsu.edu (Brian Mcewen)
- Subject: Re: 386BB systems disks?
- Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (News)
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- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 07:49:00 GMT
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- Bert Johnson (bertj@u.washington.edu) wrote:
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- : -----> JanusTools is not meant to be a copy of C='s BB software, rather
- : tools to solve some problems that the C= software does not address.
-
- Thanks for the info.
-
- : > may be the case if they aren't copyrighted, since you need the HW to do
- : > anything with them, right?) I'd like to hear about it.
-
- : -----> I didn't notice a smiley face here. Is this the type of thought
- : patterns they teach at wazzu? You know, if it takes hardware to "do
- : anything with" MS Word or Windows 95, then there must be an ftp site where
- : I can pick it up. Most commercial companies (even those that attempted to
- : survive in a brutal international market by "word of mouth" advertising)
- : tend to copyright the fruits of their labor.
-
- if you're ftp'ing hardware from an ftp site, you're doing better
- than the average dog-scented husky student/staffer...
-
- I guess you weren't aware of the Opalvision and other SW that's
- copyrighted, but available for free ftp? Sure the SW is copyrighted, but
- you can't do jack with it, unless you have their proprietary hardware, too.
- So they make complete packages/upgrades available for distribution. Said
- custom hardware, most of us can't ftp for free, unlike hairy dogs with
- unique thought patterns. ( there's a school rivalry here, for those
- wondering. :)
-
- Too bad such is not the case with the BB SW, evidently. It would
- make my life a lot easier at the moment...
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- | * Remember, what PCs are doing today the Amiga was doing in 1985* |
- | * (except for a few things, and the PC's will do those soon..) * |
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