Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Motorola taking the time to create an open library of assembly code for the 6800 (open source in the 70's!) and then analyzing that code to inform their design decisions was considered a *huge* deal.
Over the last week I have read the article and found it very interesting. They say they gathered a bunch of their own code and customers code but they do not make any indication that this code was anything like what we would call "open source". In fact, in the summary the authors address the issue of copying and seem to come out in favor of commercial software and present their new ability to run position independent code as a way to make commercial software more successful.
The actual Byte articles about the 6809 design: http://home.netcom.com/~tlindner/Download/Byte_6809_Articles.pdf
The article is full of typo's. Did it actually appear in Byte magazine like this? Or are these the result of an OCR? They layout is annoying too. I hate reading two column text in PDF format. Read one column, scroll up, read next column, get confused as to where the next column starts due to an image being placed there, scroll to next page, repeat. Comparing this issue of Byte to the last modern printed issue and you can see how much the computing world has changed.
Since dead tree technical publications are no longer viable does anyone have any suggestions for blogs or websites that one could read to get the kind of real technical info that they used to print in Byte in 1979?
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