Hi, On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Friday, December 6, 2013, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> So this is not entirely conclusive. Presumably you'd have to find >> explicit bugs or features in a particular kernel in order to truly >> identify it (esp. if it is compressed and hacked with internal strings >> modified). For trivia's sake, this is why most of us never knew that >> ArrowSoft Assembler 2.00 was really MASM 4.0 in disguise. > > > Wow! When was this discovered?
This was in private email about two years ago (which is at least 25 years after v4 was first sold, just FYI). I could send you the emails if you're really curious. One user mentioned it, and we confirmed it via another user who still had the original, old binaries (~600 bytes diff). Because of all the billions of MASM derivatives in various forms (usually v5 or v6) around online, it wasn't 100% clear whether MS knew or whether they even owned exclusive copyright to that specific (16-bit only) version. And I didn't know who to contact anyways, and I hate legalese (and am no lawyer). It just didn't seem worth making a big fuss. So we just all deleted our local copies and didn't worry about it. (Wikipedia says latest is v12, and they don't even mention older than v5.) Again, ArrowSoft Assembler was widely propagated on various major sites (e.g. Simtel) for decades! It had strings hacked, even the libc copyright vendor was changed, and compressed, so it was far from obvious (esp. since none of us ever had such an older version, most everybody preferred newer 386 versions with better syntax). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
