andree@uokvax.UUCP (01/21/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-1534300:uokvax:7900008:000:1026 uokvax!andree Jan 19 20:03:00 1984 I would be tempted to treat the legality like a book - any `sufficiently small' piece can be copied and used. Of course, you can't broadcast it without paying royalties, and USENET is a broadcast medium (of sorts), so mayhap we can't post to source. This leads to pseudocode. You run into problems there - the company in question may consider the ALGORITHM to be proprietary, and will zap you for posting that. Of course, if it's your neat algorithm, no sweat. Bottom line: we probably better not post any body else's code. Post your neat stuff, but not the before pictures. Final note: a friend of mine bought the Max memory board (I think I got the name right - 1/4Meg, space for a Meg, with memory management on board.) He wrote a caching bios RSX in C. You fire it up from the CCP, it copies the relevant code to high mem, twiddles your BIOS jump table to point to it (hiding the original), and does caching (sector basis? track basis?). It's a slick system. I'll see if I can get the code to post to the net. <mike