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

[crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross)]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Andrzej Popielewicz <
andrzejpopielewicz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> 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 ?

To a first order approximation, I meant regenerating the installation media
from source.

You would certainly know more than I would about it; if you say it can be
done, I believe you.  :-)  I don't know how to go about it, though (I
assume it involves typing more than one command, but I could well be wrong).

        - Dan C.
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