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- From: u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen)
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.103233.12388@daimi.aau.dk>
- Sender: u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen)
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- References: <1992Nov18.134641.58767@qut.edu.au> <1992Nov19.140544.28847@imada.ou.dk> <1992Nov19.182351.3063@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 10:32:33 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- Hamish.Macdonald@x400gate.bnr.ca (Hamish Macdonald) writes:
-
- >>>>>> On 19 Nov 92 14:05:44 GMT,
- >>>>>> In message <1992Nov19.140544.28847@imada.ou.dk>,
- >>>>>> breese@monet.imada.ou.dk (Bjoern Reese) wrote:
- >
- >Bjoern> I agree again. The OS is GREAT, and I can understand that the
- >Bjoern> software engineers at C= aren't feeling too happy about people
- >Bjoern> like me, when I stuff the OS, which they have been working
- >Bjoern> hard at for several years.
- >
- >Bjoern> But I think that every programmer should be given to freedom
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Bjoern> to do as he/she likes, based on guidelines from C=. If we
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Bjoern> don't care about upwards compatibility, it's our problem (we
- >Bjoern> probably never intended these programs to run on a future
- >Bjoern> machine; we made them to show what the current machine can do,
- >Bjoern> and remember: we never got any money for our efforts!!)
- >
- >That's exactly what is happening.
- >
- >Commodore's guidelines in this case are:
- >
- > "We are not going to do anything at all to help you program this
- > machine other than use the OS routines."
- >
- >They're not *stopping* you from banging the hardware, they're just not
- >telling you how to do it.
- >
- >Nothing is stopping you from investigating the hardware and figuring
- >out how to do it yourselves.
-
- I'd REALLY like to tell you some things... But I won't 'coz this discussion
- has developed into a mudthrowing contest. Everytime a guy says something FOR
- a HW guide, an OS guy flames him and the other way around... I think we should
- stop this thing RIGHT NOW 'coz we will never agree anyway. There have been many
- good or less good arguments here, but I think we have heard them all by now.
- Let people decide what they want to do, be it OS-stuff or hardware-banging.
-
-
- Slammer/Anarchy
- u920659@daimi.aau.dk
-
-
- /\ __ __ __ _ |_
- /--\| )(_| | (__| )\/ - BEDTIME FOR DEMOCRACY
- /
-
- BTW: Anybody interested in making a group/club/whatever whose purpose is to
- make a new hardware manual? E-mail me! Anybody against this idea, KEEP
- THE FLAMES!
-
-
-