14 May
2013
14 May
'13
5:40 a.m.
On May 13, 2013, at 9:06 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 05/13/2013 08:57 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
Jeeze. Were they THAT embarrassed about it? ;)
Alas, they probably thought it was THAT great (and, I guess, easy to
copy if you caught a glimpse?).
- Dave
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.