bofh wrote: > There's also Steve Wozniak - my hero - and a hacker after the best > traditions. He's the guy who gave away schematics to Apple I, when they > were trying to sell it, gave away source code to DOS (DOS has always been > Disk Operating System for the Apple IIs to me, MSDOS being the crappy one), > etc.
The schematics and source code even came with the Apple II and, IIRC, the Apple II+. It was a huge foldout in the book containing (IIRC) the monitor code and the full 6502 instruction set. You could mod the hardware in anyway imaginable (at the time). I tried out stepper motors, data acquisition, custom ROMs, etc. The software was the same, I made primitive mods to many applications, but also even DOS and the system itself. That was one of the things I missed greatly during the proprietary phase that some unixes and Apple later passed through. While vastly more complex and useful than the Apple II+, OpenBSD brings back the customization and usefulness of software (as do several other systems). However, as far as I can tell, it is rather far ahead in cleanly understandable and well-done components that play well together. Regards, -Lars
