13 May
2013
13 May
'13
5:57 p.m.
On 5/13/13 3:32 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
I remember a friend of mine at IBM took the Taligent
source code (which was all C++) and ran it
through a program he wrote to graph the object relationships.
At least IBM got to see it. Internally NO ONE outside of the Pink group was allowed to
look at it.
We had two people who were cleared to look at it (Phil Goldman, and Erich Ringwald who
both were
original members of the Pink microkernel team that came to RISC Products) and they had to
go over
there in a locked room with no network and no removable storage on the machines. Now,
imagine trying
to write drivers when you can't look at the kernel code, and there is no published
driver API.
Fortunately, they went away to Taligent before the our prototype was ready so I worked on
other things
besides drivers for them. By that point, people inside Apple were glad to be rid of them.