At 09:34 �� 7/2/2002 -0800, you wrote: >At 03:50 PM 2/7/2002 -0500, you wrote: >>So... once more how about that OpenSMS again? (In C....?) > >I'm all for this, except that key parts of the current the OS are still >owned by Tony Tebby. >This includes, the TTK (we have some work-alikes) and the Pointer >Environment (ProWess may be a bit much for some folks). I can't see us >doing anything serious with out these parts. > >A good example would be the recent open sourcing of a few older versions >of AT&T Unix (I believe it was something like System III). It was a nice >jesture, but way too late and very out of date. I can't imagine using my >QL with only base QDOS (and not addons). > >Tim Swenson
Hi Tim, I am afraid you misunderstood me... I am proposing something "fuller" than SMSQ/E - QDOS. In a way, the sum of parts being greater than the individual parts.... The "OpenQDOSMS" should have everything SMS has, with the best features of Minerva plus media capabilities (gfx and sound), GUI and an open/easy driver architecture As for the SMSQ/E sources, although say Marcel could help with them, the right way to go would be a dissasembly of it... (Now before everyone starts about legality etc... let me let you IN my way of thinking)... Let's assume we do not talk about OSes but we are talking about VW Beetles (Close to home ;-) Beetles were fully dissasembled, reverse engineered etc. etc... as many other cars were (and still are) by competitors, aftermarket equipment companies, mechanics, simple auto mechanic hobbyists etc. etc... There is NOTHING wrong learning how a thing works... There are a lot of things wrong exactly copying a thing/OS/program/machine/book etc... To get ideas from things that are around us it's not only logical, its human. In the case of SMSQ/E it has been done with QDOS and Minerva (IIRC that's how Minerva came into existence in the first place) etc. etc. If we prohibit someone to learn how things work, we might as well put on long gowns, sit around in a circle, turn the clock back to 1000 A.D and call ourselves the "Holy Inquisition".... Thou shalt believe.... See the thing is, if we can break down SMS to its parts, through the power of the many we might come up with better ideas than TT did (he is alone in this)... (We may again not but we will (shall) not know until we try... Phoebus
