Hobbes Emulator licensed NOT SPAM

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sun Jun 4 11:49:48 UTC 2006


> I know. Thank you for the invitation. Which I decline. After all 95  
> % of the
> code is from Vassily and Dan.

This has nothing to do with ownership, this has to do with access,  
backup, versioning!!!!
Why it is difficult to understand that? I do not know.
You can publish on squeaksource and let everybody access or update it  
or not.

> I added one percent to make Hobbes run on a little Endian  
> architecture.
>
> The remaining four percent went to the AltoFileStream. Remember the  
> problems I
> had with the natural numbers starting with one instead of zero?
>
> Those four percent went in because I naively assumed that the image  
> is storing
> the snapshot onto the alto disk. So I modified Hobbes to read the  
> snapshot from
> an alto file stream instead of from a standard file stream.
>
> But when I finished the AltoFileStream I learned that the image  
> does not at all
> store the snapshot file. This would be the job of the VM.  
> (primitive 97). Which
> makes the AltoFileStream an exercise as instructive as useless.
>
> Probably I won't need to change Hobbes any further for my master  
> task, which is
> studying the Blue Book and implementing an ST-80 VM on top of Unix  
> and X-Window.
> (Don't hold your breath as I am really slow and I have no time  
> schedule.) The
> Hobbes Emulator was helpful especially in finding out about the  
> file format of
> the ST-80-V2-image. See
>
> 	http://www.ba-stuttgart.de/~helbig/st80/ImageFormat.txt
>
> By now I am looking forward to some further docs regarding the  
> image file format
> which Luc and Mario promised.
>
> I do not object to someone storing it into the Squeak source  
> repository, as long
> as Vassili's license is observed, someone is going to maintain it  
> -- and someone
> is not me :-).

I will.
I really do not understand why you do not use the right tools. But if  
you want to spend
you time finding the right versions of Cs to run something, this is  
your choice.
But this way in 5 years from now, when you will be doing something  
else I or others will still be
able to access the code.

Stef

>
> Thank you all for your support.
>
> Greetings,
> Wolfgang
>
>
> --
> Weniger, aber besser.
>




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