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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 05 2012 @ 12:46 PM EDT |
When you state dumpster diving was a source of their code, that is inaccurate.
They used the source of DEC's assembler as the basis for a chip simulator, which
they then used to verify their Basic would run on a given microcomputer
architecture before the chip could be productized.That way they'd have something
to market when the hardware hit the shelves. This gave them an advantage before
the market settled on Intel for personal computers. But back then, that usage of
code was not considered the big steal it is in hindsight. Back then, as an
electrical engineer when I wanted to learn how a compiler worked, I just went to
work and the sys admins gladly printed out Wirth's source code for Pascal off
the CDC mainframe. What was more a theft back then was the unauthorized use of
computer time to simulate a chip, which was expensive.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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