Porting TADS


Tue, 10 Oct 1995 21:00:00 +0100

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.
>
> 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.

Now I may have got completely the wrong end of the stick here. If I have,
please tell me (nicely).

I understood that to port the TADS system to another computer/OS one
contacted Mike Roberts, he said "Oh goody, here's a non-disclosure agreement,
sign it and you may have the source", you signed it, got the source and did
your port. Everyone's happy.

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.

I hope I haven't offended anyone. Please bear in mind that I have no idea
which (if either) of the above scenarios is correct. I have no wish to
"bad-mouth" TADS, but if the second scenario is how it works, then I think I
should mention this in the FAQ.

So, what's the deal?

-- 
Jools Arnold                                          jools@arnod.demon.co.uk