mdk1@cblpf.ATT.COM (shadow) (06/29/88)
Or have you all disappeared for the summer? Mike Knudsen, anything exciting happening? Wasn't it last summer about this time that I sent out a similar message? I wonder why that is. I also wonder why we haven't had any female posters (at least none that I can remember) on comp.sys.m6809. A comp.sys.m6809 poster child -- Mike King -- ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^ ihnp4!cblpf!mdk1 | "You can lead a yak to water, but you can't teach an old mdk1@cblpf.ATT.COM | dog to make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke" -Opus ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^
jimomura@lsuc.uucp (Jim Omura) (06/30/88)
In article <1350@cblpf.ATT.COM> mdk1@cblpf.ATT.COM (shadow) writes: > >Or have you all disappeared for the summer? Mike Knudsen, anything >exciting happening? Wasn't it last summer about this time that I sent out a >similar message? I wonder why that is. I also wonder why we haven't had >any female posters (at least none that I can remember) on comp.sys.m6809. Well, yes, some of us are still around. I've pretty much finished my first major project working under OS-9 Windows. In a couple of days I'll be sending it off for negotiation for distribution. I expect that the first company I send it to will be the one to distribute it. For their sake (in case they reject it) I won't say who it is, but they know me and have been waiting for this submission for quite a while. I intended to wait about 2 more days. The design is now frozen really, but I want to make sure that I know all bugs and complaints. I may make one last change, but not likely. Notice the implication? That I *know* there are bugs in it which I'm *not* fixing? It's true. It's like this: Where an anomaly has arisen in the program where I think that Tandy/Microware may and indeed *should* fix the OS I'm faced with what to do if the fixed OS would break what I've done to overcome the problem. This arose in a couple of placed. So, where I felt my code was "right", I decided in those cases to leave it and note it in the documentation. The problems are, for the most part livable. It's just disappointing. Here's an interesting problem: Nowhere in any documentation, could I find what the *Specified* result should be of "Get"ting a buffer where the pixel addresses don't line up on a byte address. Similarly, the documentation does not say what will happen if you "Put" a block to a pixel which isn't byte aligned. Of course there were *many* out and out errors in documentation, and you will find that the system calls don't always work. All in all the project took 2, maybe 3 times longer than it should have. It could have been worse, but I could be a lot better. Lets hope for the better. Cheers! -- Jim O. -- Jim Omura, 2A King George's Drive, Toronto, (416) 652-3880 ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura Byte Information eXchange: jimomura