[TUHS] COHERENT sources released under 3-clause BSD license.

[Andrzej Popielewicz]

* Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> [2015-01-06 12:04:52]:

> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Rico Pajarola <rp at servium.ch> wrote:
> 
> > adding the list back
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Michael Kerpan <mjkerpan at kerpan.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> This is a cool development. Does this code build into a working version
> >> of Coherent or is this mainly useful to study? Either way, it should be
> >> interesting to look at the code for a clone specifically aimed at low-end
> >> hardware.
> >>
> > Unknown (to me, anyway).  Steve said he had intended to organize and
> catalog the code at some point, but that he hasn't gotten around to it (and
> not to hold one's breath).  I gathered that the tar ball he provided is a
> snapshot of (a subset of?) the MWC development disks at the time he was
> asked to create the archive.  To that end, I suspect that if one were
> sufficiently motivated one *could* use it to build a distribution of
> COHERENT, but I suspect you'd have to know quite a bit about their internal
> development practices and release processes to do so successfully;
> knowledge that may very well have been lost over time.  Perhaps some
> motivated person will be able to reverse engineer it, though I suspect it's
> more useful as a case study than as working code.
> 
>         - Dan C.

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Hi Dan,
What to You mean by building distribution. The archive contains original distribution 
of Coherent 4.2.10. Or You mean one could build quite new distribution ?
I mean, which would work on modern hardware ?
Andrzej