17 Mar
2010
17 Mar
'10
5:29 a.m.
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Randy Dawson wrote:
As Jim Leonard said, us developers are more than happy
to talk about the
design challenges and how we solved them. I had many cool tricks to do
real time on the PC, and could write a chapter on it.
I was approached by a publisher, to do exactly that, with discussion, and
code examples. But, one of the first things the publisher said was to NOT
let go of the copyright on any of the code examples! I don't think that I
will ever do such a disk I/O book, nor do I believe that there would be a
market for it. Disks are "so obsolete".
But most of my XEDNI(tm) code is going into a manuscript, and none of the
licenses that I've peddled for any of it would restrict me from
publication. That, too, probably won't be marketable, but I don't let
that aspect of reality get in my way.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com