From: nowhere@nospicedham.nevernet.at   
      
   On 05/01/2023 17:33, Etienne Marais wrote:   
   > On Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 6:00:25 PM UTC+2, wolfgang kern wrote:   
   >> On 05/01/2023 16:29, Etienne Marais wrote:   
   >> [...about my OS]   
   >>>> unfortunately it became all history now (damned UEFI)   
   >>> Gonna Github it ?   
   >>   
   >> No, because of several things:   
   >> * it's a commercial product and still active >100 times   
   >> * it is written w/o any textual source code (hex only).   
   >> * it wont run on any newer PC (due UEFI) and also not on   
   >> many older stuff because it's made for specific hardware   
   >> where it was delivered on.   
   >> * I have only a handful copies on CD yet which I reserved   
   >> in case of required re-installation at clients side. And   
   >> my responsibility for maintenance times out end of 2025.   
   >>   
   >> If I'm still alive I may share code snips and layout hints then.   
   >> __   
   >> wolfgang   
   >   
   > Cool. Sounds like something for a very specific market if I may garner a   
   guess. The switching between architecture looks very interesting, but I wonder   
   how many people would make use of something like that in the 'real world'.   
   Only reason I'm on x86    
   assembly is it satisfies my retro computing indulgence and desire to   
   understand the evolution of architecture. I think I would enjoy such as tool   
   but I doubt there are many people who would make good use of it (?)   
      
   I never offered my tools because they allowed everything w/o any   
   restriction and so could do a lot of damage if used by unaware.   
   And they are/were top hacker and best reverse engineering stuff :)   
      
   me too like to have historic PCs for playing my favorite old games.   
   but what's on the market is either badly damaged or heavy abused.   
      
   I searched w/o success for PC spare parts to revive any one of my   
   collection from the past. Nothing older than 3 years is available.   
   __   
   wolfgang   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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