Sam Wrote: > BTW, anyone can order faithful facsimile reproductions of owner's > manuals for old cars from J.C Whitney and other companies. Although > this is copyright material, we don't see any notices of license to > republish and redistribute the same. We never hear of any car > manufacturers making a stink over copyright piracy and about providing
Funny you say that Sam - My car manual for a 30 year old Toyota is republished by some third party - I wonder if they paid for the right? Back to software ... I have a perfect condition box in front of me that says "Digital Research Concurrent CP/M " on the cover and contains manuals and three 360Kb disks. Perhaps I should put it on our web page and see if anyone complains. What I would like to do right now is to send you all the software James has just written over a tortured year of confusion. The "Railway Traffic two computer hot swap system" now runs, but has odd weird bugs that need wringing out. Unfortunately there are issues of "COmmercial Confidentiality" over the core train describer program. We are providing a two computer upgrade - both computers being furnished with real time telemetry, but independently "sentient". They talk to each other via a RS232 cable with super secure protocol to check each others function and data status. Oh,. and the whole deal is written in DOS. It is about as big as Arachne, and written in C++ ... eventually after errors upgrading from C code. There have been lost pointers, failure to initialise stacks, serial ports that echo when not plugged in, LCD screen write corruptions, apocryphyl NPU accesses, poor DOS emulations, RS485 tristate issues, circular logic of all sorts, and the fundamental doppelganger problem of who is the real me when I am looking at someone else looking at me looking at them looking at me looking at them - all with lots of serial line chatter. Bye for tonight Kali http://www.nimnet.asn.au/~kali/
