19 Apr
2006
19 Apr
'06
7:20 a.m.
Stuart,
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 22:08, you wrote:
It has been many months since you promised to release
the TSX archives. How
about sending or putting online for download exactly what you received?
Isn't that what you told the author at S&H what you were going to do?
The source listings are already up on bitsavers - and one of my DCL (DEC
Computer Lunch) buddies here in SV has written a special OCR program that is
scanning the listings to re-create the original MACRO sources of TSX. So
there's plenty going on (no commitments on that totally happening, timing,
etc.).
This is ridiculous. Should I approach S&H myself,
on behalf of all of the
other interested parties?
"Ridiculous" is in the mind of the beholder. Yes, I could have taken the time
to put up the TSX website as opposed to obtaining every RL02 pack and SMD
drive I could from S&H, preserving the contents, etc. But I figured that
"exercise", which took weeks of my time was more important than
"releasing"
TSX code.
I'm required under my agreement with S&H to have a website where I can
"log"
and "verify" to a reasonable extent that only hobbiests will be downloading
the system, etc.
I am committed to getting TSX into the hands of the "folks" - but I estimate
that it will take a week or so of my time - contiguous - to do it. That
hasn't happened yet - but I promise it will.
Regards,
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"