From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrzejpopielewicz@gmail.com (Andrzej Popielewicz) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 20:40:25 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] COHERENT sources released under 3-clause BSD license. In-Reply-To: References: <201501061341.t06Dfbsh025288@coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu> Message-ID: <20150107194025.GB72@amu.edu.pl> * Dan Cross [2015-01-06 12:04:52]: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Rico Pajarola wrote: > > > adding the list back > > > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Michael Kerpan > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs 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