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- From: Hamish.Macdonald@x400gate.bnr.ca (Hamish Macdonald)
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- In-Reply-To: breese@monet.imada.ou.dk's message of 19 Nov 92 14:05:44 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.182351.3063@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Lines: 30
- Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Bell Northern Research
- References: <1992Nov18.134641.58767@qut.edu.au> <1992Nov19.140544.28847@imada.ou.dk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 18:23:51 GMT
-
- >>>>> 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.
-