Re: Porting TADS


11 Oct 1995 14:28:39 GMT

David Baggett mentioned on 10 Oct 1995 in rec.arts.int-fiction that:
>In article <19951010.210000.43@arnod.arnod.demon.co.uk>,
>Julian Arnold <jools@arnod.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>John Holder (jholder@nmsu.edu) wrote:
>>
>>> Thus spake \"Frank Bidwell\ (fhb):
>>> ] noone said anything about a port fo AlphaStations running OSF/1 or digital
>>> ] unix.
>>>

John Holder:
>>> Unfortunately, I made this offer a year or so ago and was turned down. I am
>>> even a registered user... So, now I use Inform, since it runs on my
>>> Alpha.

Dave Baggett:
>Given what I know about the policy, I don't understand why you'd be refused
>for an Alpha port. I just took the Unix sources and compiled them on an
>Alpha yesterday, after I read Frank's note. (I confess I'm stumped now,
>though, because the program spews unaligned access messages and won't give
>me a breakpoint in dbx.)

John Holder:
This is odd... perhaps I took not being responded to as a "no." I know
Mike is busy, heck I'm pretty busy myself. Anyway, I'll sign whatever
I have to to get TADS going on the Alpha... Although it appears that you
do have one... ;^)

Julian Arnold:
>>Now a couple of people have implied this isn't the case. Rather, people are
>>not being given the go-ahead to port TADS or update existing ports for
>>"minor" systems (ie, non-IBM or non-Mac). I haven't been able to contact
>>Mike Roberts to ask him directly.

John Holder:
Well, "not being able to contact Mike ... directly" was definately my problem,
then, and not "being turned down to do a port". (Attempts to remove foot
from mouth.)

Thanks, Dave, for clearing this up - I had no intention of spreading
misinformation about TADS... And Jools, don't worry, you didn't offend
anyone... ;^)

John

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