Re: A82: CrASH Hacked!!!!

To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A82: CrASH Hacked!!!!
From: Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@isd.ingham.k12.mi.us>
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 17:28:21 -0400
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Michael Pearce wrote:

> >
> >Please don't release the source code to these shells, it will just
> >encourage others to write massive numbers of shells.
> >
>
> I don't really think that would happen on the 82.  the reason it was
> like that for the 85 is that everyone waited for *years* for the next
> version of zshell to be released and it never happened.  it would be
> good for people to be knowledgable enough to write their own shells,
> so the source code would be beneficial to the 82 community, IMHO (but
> not without the author's permission).
>
> -mike pearce

I still think it would.  Shells are considered the elite of all programs,
like what Windows is to the computer software industry.  Anyone with a
big ego wants to have their own shell (and believe me, that's a lot of
people), and the release of source code would just make it easier for
anyone to make one.

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RE: A82: CrASH Hacked!!!!

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Re: A82: CrASH Hacked!!!!

From: Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@isd.ingham.k12.mi.us>

Re: A82: CrASH Hacked!!!!

From: mgp4007@omega.uta.edu (Michael Pearce)