On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:31:29 -0700, "Simon Cooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: "Nev Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Any idea who Ken Elston is? > > > Just wondering as he seemed to share an email address with "Samsboss"? > > > > IIRC Mr R P Brenchley's father. > > > > Bob used the name as a pseudonym in format, he even published some of > > my stuff under that name, and later as an alias on here. > > The CHEEK of it! > > Once upon a time, I wrote (and published) a short piece of code to switch > the SAM into Spectrum mode. > > Bob published an (identical) piece of code in Format under the name Ken > Elston. > > And claimed that I'd ripped Ken off. > > There's not that many ways to write that switch code (it's only 15 bytes or > so)... but really.... !!!!!!!! > Actually that was a bit of code I wrote during one of my visits to MGT in Swansea during the machine's development and he published it under KE's name. IIRC it was later used by Ian Spencer in the Specmaker emulator he wrote for SAM. But as you rightly say it's only a few bytes and thus easily duplicated by accident. As for me, I don't care. What's a dozen or so instructions weighed against the millions of lines of code I've done in my lifetime. -- Nev - no longer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and getting no spam at all (yet) Webpage under construction at www,nfy53,demon,co,uk
