Re: A86: very very odd

To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: Re: A86: very very odd
From: "Trey Jazz" <joemama@minot.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 20:05:06 -0600
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org


well they could sue them for copyright violations and anyway if they company
that makes the calc is any good at programming at all they could make at
least a decent competition with their own os and not need to copy ti's
programming....i heard that hp is a pretty good competition os but just not
as distributed as ti

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt2000 <matt2000@gte.net>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Sunday, February 15, 1998 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: A86: very very odd


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>>were not knockin anyone at ti or ti, were just saying that it seems like
ti
>>releases these calcs (assembly compatible) and gives a little help on them
>>then like abandons them kinda and lets the ppl that buy them figure out
>what
>>to do. that is a big nono in other programming languages. every language
>>offers help on most to all of their functions/commands
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>They are probably afraid if too much documentation is released, some
>competitor might snatch it up and develop there own calcs. Its almost like
>when IBM gave away their schematics for the 80x86 or whatever.  On one side
>many programmers starting programming for the XT, on the other side the
>engineers started developing clones of the XT
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> They also may want to slow down the release of emulators. If they can
delay
>having
>emulators being created then the TI assembly programmers will buy the
>calculators
>instead of using the emulators.
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>I can think of more reasons
>
>-Matt
>ICQ changed
>ICQ # 8342474
>http://www.dogtech.com/cybop
>http://www.dogtech.com/cybop/ti86
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