Re: git repository

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:23:15 -0600
Message-ID: <5462D2A3.90303@jbrain.com>
On 11/11/2014 3:11 PM, groepaz@gmx.net wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2014, 22:05:54 silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
>> On 2014-11-11 22:01, The Doctor wrote:
>>> On 11/11/2014 05:56 AM, groepaz@gmx.net wrote:
>>>> even back in the days when commodore was still an active company,
>>>> every decent programming book contained the full kernal (and
>>>> sometimes also basic) sourcecode/disassembly with comments. it
>>>> becoming a problem 30 years later is
>>> If this is the case, it might be fruitful to go searching for e-copies
>>> of some of these books.  Perhaps they're available at archive.org or
>>> something (like, for example, Lou Sanders' books are).
>> This is the case but the disassembly done by (seemingly late..) Lee
>> Davison is by far the best ever. And we have it already in text/plain
>> format.
> imho having it in some format that can be assembled into an actual binary is a
> must these days - as that is the only (sane) way to make sure it doesnt
> contain errors.
>
I'm highly in favor of this, for the reasons noted.

I'm also in favor of this being stuffed in git somewhere and cloned all 
over.  I agree with Nate that atrophy kills a lot of this stuff, but if 
it were all in a nice packaged solution that could be cloned on a 
regular basis, it would never die.

Jim


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