meshes…
>attach a bit of source code to my software, or to my disc of meshes, it will
>stop Czechs from stealing it? Wonderful! Thanks for the tip.
No, but I am almost sure that nobody will steal your bit of source code. It is
very interesting. When I read your note regarding the piracy of source code, it
was first time when I started to think about the possibility that
somebody can steal my source. I simply took the fact that nobody will steal my
sources as a axiom. But peoples here are thinking the same way as me. Maybe
this is the remainder of old times (5 years ago) when peoples around computers
here in Czech tried to help each other. It's hard to explain to someone who was
not here in 1980 – 1989. In these years, there was almost no informations, no
literature etc. In this situation peoples tried to help each other with
hardware, software etc. Everything free of charge of course. The result was,
that almost all computer peoples was friends. Maybe a little example will help.
I started with computers in 1980. In 1982, I got several chips (used) from my
friend. I got Z-80, several EPROMs, several RAMs etc. I exchanged two of these
EPROMs for old 8'' FD drive with one friend. From other friend, I got the
design for the FD controller. I build the basic Z-80 computer with FD
controller. I gave my design to another friend and he adapted this small system
for 64K of memory. In the same time, my colleague from school got the SINCLAIR
computer and wrote assembler/monitor for him. I lent his SINCLAIR and I used
his ASM for writing my own CP/M for my machine (yes, write. I had only the
description of CP/M services). Lately, he gave me the source code for his ASM
and I adapted his program for my CP/M.
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