wilk@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Michael Wilk) (05/01/88)
I have a public domain program for the IBM PC that looks like a demo for EGA software. The title is "EGAD!" Does anyone know if this represents a product, possibly a package of available graphics routines? The only information is that it is "by David Morrill." Can someone tell me how to contact him?
kmc@cup.portal.com (05/04/88)
David Morrill works for IBM at Yorktown Heights Research Center. What you ran across is demo of a graphics function library he wrote for the EGA. The software was useful enough to be distributed internally, and as such was designated IBM Internal Use Only. Not everything that gets developed in Research finds its way to the outside world, particularly through official product development channels. In this case, even though EGAD was never released, some people somewhere along the internal distribution channel misunderstood the distinction between free software and public domain software, and uploaded it to the BBS network. Technically, since the software was developed as part of Morrill's job, it's the property of IBM. So it isn't shareware, it isn't freeware(tm) and it isn't public domain. It's just an accidental leak of experimental work in progress. Kevin McCarty