Re: How to detect EOFs in SEQ-files using M/C?

[Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Charlie wrote:
|> Strange.  I've met him (as a normal person, not as a computer nut
|> in a computer function or computer event), he seems like a nice guy.
|> I'm surprised he is being so unnecessarily possessive and territorial
|> over something that is so old, and of purely historical interest.
|
|I simply meant that Bill Gates didn't like the idea of open source code
|then (Applesoft) or now with his many (Windows) products.  It was common
|for Apple in those early days to publish commented listings of ROM code
|in the manuals that came with the machines.  They did not do this with
|Applesoft.  It is my understanding (although I could be wrong about
|this) that in the contract for Applesoft, Microsoft specified that the
|listing wouldn't be public.

But other people have probably disassembled it, and commented on
it in their own unique way.  (For instance, you could look at the
disassembly of the Commodore 1541 ROM as detailed in the book by
Immers and Neufeld, there is bound to be a market for something
along these lines, and still avoid the copyright issue, look at
how it was done on the Commodore side of reality.)  There must be
books out there somewhere with a reasonably well detailed disassembly
of Applesoft Basic?