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Re: [xl7] Re: Open source the OS

2003-01-20 by Aaron Eppolito

> "joesapo <joesapo@y...>" wrote:
> > all our problems would be gone by now if Emu had just
> > opened the code for the OS on the command station.

--- "BEKEN ONE <bekenone@...>" <bekenone@...> wrote:
> but that means we would need the specs on the ASIC chips inside in
> which EMU did not make.....

Actually, we did make them.  All of them.  And no, we're certainly not
going to be releasing programming info for them!  =)

> so than we would need a SDK based toolkit to start off with.

You'd also need several thousands of dollars of third party tools like
cross-compilers, target-based debuggers, etc.

In short, you'd probably have far more problems trying to develop for
the XL-7 than you would making music with it!  =)

-Aaron

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