Re: C bug of the day

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

Vinzent Hoefler wrote in message ...
>Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>The original versions of Janus/Ada were for CP/M on 8080/Z80 machines.
>>Certainly, in 1986 you could have purchased Janus/Ada from us.

>Well, not so easy, I'd say. I doubt, you would have been allowed to
>export to "communist" countries. ;)

We weren't covered by those restrictions; we had a number of customers
in "communist" countries. (Yes, we checked!).

>>It would be relatively easy to create a cross-compiler to the Z80; we
>>still have the majority of the source for it. Of course, it would be a
>>significant job to bring it up to the current state of our compiler --
>>it's been more than 15 years since any development took place on that
>>compiler. But we haven't had a customer who was interested enough to
>>partially fund it.

>Well, I guess, I don't have the money to fund that either. What about
>releasing that stuff to the open source community?

It wouldn't be any value without the front-end, and no one would want to
use the 1986 front-end anyway. In any case, this isn't my code, its RR
Software's, and I'd have to come up with a business case for such a
release. That's much easier to do for currently active products (the
obvious purpose is to make money on support, as ACT does. But for that
to make sense, there would have to be customers with money - which
brings us back to the start.)

                    Randy.