From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au (Peter Jeremy) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:30:43 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Re: Sad news from IBM... In-Reply-To: <42A7CE96.7040808@peacemax.org> References: <42A7CE96.7040808@peacemax.org> Message-ID: <20050609053043.GB91934@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> On 2005-Jun-08 23:07:34 -0600, James Falknor wrote: >All we need to do is put the word out that TUHS is seeking pre-1991 AIX >source code and it's bound to surface. It depends how widely spread the source code was and how may people still have readable 15 year old backups. I know I tend to delete old code after a while and many of my old QIC-150 tapes are no longer readable. > If all else fails, I'm sure >someone has a pre-1991 AIX binary distribution that could be >disassembled (that is if a binary distribution can be disassembled back >to a rough source code). I'd be very surprised if this produces anything useful. The code will have been compiled with a reasonable degree of optimisation and won't have any debugging symbols in it. It would be reasonably trivial to turn it into something that a C compiler could understand but making it look anything like the original is a major undertaking. -- Peter Jeremy This email may contain privileged/confidential information. You may not copy or disclose this email to anyone without the written permission of the sender. If you have received this email in error please kindly delete this message and notify the sender. Opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily the opinions of the employer. This email and any attached files should be scanned to detect viruses. No liability will be accepted by the employer for loss or damage (whether caused by negligence or not) as a result of email transmission.