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From: kim@mips.UUCP (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Sources on net.micro.atari
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Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 14:42:52 EST
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>>> Also it is not uncommon for binarys to be placed in the public domain !!
>>> -- 
>For some reason, the folks in net.micro.amiga seem to have few of the
>hassles over posting sources to the distribution group that seem to
>show up in this list.
> --
>(Besides, we can always use a dis-assembler to see how it works).
> --
>I would rather see some meaningful source code, but post whatever you
>feel you can!
> --
>Has anybody successfully ported any of the Amiga code over to the ST?
>Someone ported some of it to their CoCo/OS-9 system (see net.micro.6809).

Someone (sorry, I don't remember who) recently posted microEmacs to
net.micro.atari.  The source came from net.micro.amiga.  Not to rub salt
into open wounds (at least not too much, anyway :-) ), but the argument
that "the source is too machine specific to be of value to others" is
just alot of hand-waving.  Sure, most *any* porting requires some amount
of rework ... hell, even to go from AmigaDOS V1.0 to V1.1 requires some
changes.  And granted that a straight across port may not take advantage
of unique hardware, and some functionallity may be lost from the original,
but it provides a place to start working on the next revision ... isn't
there something about "standing on the shoulders of those who have gone on
before me" (or does that only apply to physicists)?

Sorry to ramble on so ... I just get so annoyed when I see something
posted that *might* be interesting to look at, and then on the 2nd or
3rd screen I see "requires BinHex 4.0", or some such drivel!  Grrrrrr!!!

Anyway, thanks to whomever posted XLISP to net.micro.atari ... I hope to
get it up on my Amiga shortly ... and then I may try to move it over to
my MS-DOS machine (tho the C compiler I have there is a little "weak").

/kim
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