Open Letters #02 20 февраля 2000

Nemo open letters № 2.9

450022


   Please send catalog.

   I ordered the FT-2 and ZX-F N 9. How to do with them?

   I am with my team are going to produce multicards (mouse + 
IDE controller) by Nemo bus. I will be glad to hear your

opinions (advice and recommendations). Advance
thank you.

                                       N.



                               04.02.2000


              Dear N!


   1. To order a catalog (price list
so it is necessary to understand) is necessary (see
price list) "... to put postage stamps
$ 5 USD. for correspondence or ordering
price list and advertising. "What you have been
made aware of a letter from
07/04/1999 and the letter from? .07.99 (Ie repeatedly). On 
20.01.2000 postal rates have increased by 40%, so now it is 
necessary to put marks on 7 rub. Therefore, the directory is 
not sent - I think quite sufficient to detail

response to your letter. Disc "Open letters" and not included.

   2. FT-2 and ZX-F N 9 has not yet emerged.

   3. About multicards.

   3.1. "Crossing a mouse and an IDE controller is unlikely to 
be the best solution. In fact, from a systemic point of view

IDE controller must be supplemented by: a)
hours, b) additional circuits in
IDE-controller, which would provide
100% joining all types of screws. If
to analyze the layout of such a device, you can easily find that
limit the size of expansion card bus
Nemo-bus will be exhausted. Ie controller
mouse (not to mention the drive controller), there will not 
fit. Mouse controller, the my opinion, it is easier to dock 
with the keyboard controller - with system integrators point of 
view it is more correct. 

   3.2. Not entirely clear where in ISDOS'e suddenly will 
undertake the mouse driver. Case not only and not in writing 
your own code. Issue more deeply. (And writing the code - not a 
trivial task to do this well know the OS and have a good 
experience with her). In OS'i There are currently no free 
memory. This means either: a) you reduce the memory size 
USER-program (the result: incorrectly written programs under OS'

cease all work, well written beginning to slow), and b) shoot
Some residents (the result is similar). Furthermore, I 
understand that to write the driver to climb

and change something in the 0th level of the nucleus. This
already do in any gate not climbing -
most likely you will get a non-standard
OS'i version with all its consequences.

   3.3. Do not quite understand how you're going to protect 
copyright Company IskraSoft. If you do not, then the whole idea 
will result in a banal piracy. In the controller (s) Nemo 
"drive" the cost of software (axial) - and a significant part 
of the price. 

   Apparently, by studying the price list
sent to you last summer, you
accepted this amount for the net profit that
wrong. The cost of components, circuit boards,
Build proper controllers is negligible in value. If your 
controller does not will be equipped with the brand of disc

IskraSoft, then I will have to redistribute the prices of goods 
and services, ie allocate the costs to other positions. The 
price of the controller in this case will be significantly 
reduced due to: a) the deterioration of customer support, b) 
slow progress of new technology on the market. Ie lose 
everything. This is typical, the typical reaction of any 
manufacturer in the threat term. Ie when you try to block the

"Oxygen" will be quite firm IskraSoft
adequate response. If you persist, you will probably be made a 
new controller for IDE, in accordance with clause 3.1.

Because system integrators are more advantageous, then your 
efforts (and, accordingly, results) are gradually come to 
naught. Pay for this, apparently, buyers of new boards KAY'ya, 
ie promotion in the market to slow further. On all-pro 
all-takes no more than two or three years. For the manufacturer 
it is - a moment. 

   At the moment, much of the
value Spectrum'ovskogo ON "sitting" in the
equipment. This is very bad. Much better would be if the user 
pays for the soft. The problem is subject to copyright

law - namely, instilling in customers a very useful skill - to 
pay for soft. Failure to comply with copyright and

as a consequence, the redistribution of prices
soft'a in hard - it's a stalemate, which leads to:

   - Depreciation of existing equipment,
as base of support - is to write
software, and users do not pay for it.
At the same loud cry afterwards that they had not supported 
(and with a fright? With what money?). Poke my nose in my old 
computer, which goes for a knockdown price, thereby knock me 
the prices and Spectrum discredit the general.


   - Programmer firm essentially
are based on manufacturers hard'a, that just is not the best way
influence on the support of the fleet of machines, 
manufacturers of most brands is either changed its 
IBM-commerce, or simply withdraw money or ruined.


   - Reproduction of non-compliance of the copyright holder. 
Because user reasons for the scheme: if the value of software

Included in hard, it means that he
Someone paid for, and it can steal.

   Meanwhile, this idea is useful to think out
until the end. With this approach, users
manufacturer put in a position
where he is forced to "vparivat" significantly more equipment, 
according to market needs. Moreover, a significant as bullshit, 
accompanying a blizzard of Advertising and praising the 
technical characteristics (which are in fact no one needed). Ie 
engage konyunkturschinoy. The users on the ears progressively 
increases noodles, landmarks are lost, and there is a psychosis 
that is The Sleep of Reason, which generates monsters 
(including hardware). In essence, the producer of Forces

users to buy everything fresh and new
technique (one way or another, sooner or later,
here or there - for there are many specifically Jesuit tricks). 
And another can not be, if not complied with copyright law - 
except in the trivial case that there will be no software, no 
hard, ie nothing will. It seems

counting the number of Spectrum'ov that you are gathering dust, 
you will realize that this indeed the case. Ie money still

paid, but that's just how effective the work of this money? 
Increased if the number (and quality) of the brains in their 
heads users compared with the number of

brains in computers? It's disgusting about it
speak.

   Well, I digress. In case you
including price soft'a ISDOS in the price of iron,
then I'll take a wait-neutral, ie I will not interfere with 
either, nor to assist, as by virtue of clause 3.1 and 3.2, in 
my opinion, is optimal.


   3.4. For startups (in the region
hard'a) are preferred rather
compact and simpler tasks that do not
requiring vision system integrators,
long-term forecasting and planning,
sophisticated advertising / industrial / institutional 
structures. As an example: 

   - Computer interface device KAY
TV;

   - Video port;

   - Just a mouse controller;

   - Just a keyboard controller.

   These things do not require regular work
over the software, and even does not require software
(Except for built-in). In this case, the possible support from 
my side. Her should not be overestimated - most likely

it will be purely symbolic, because any
Support costs money. Perhaps, for example, a contract for 
advertising support and / or sell your hard'a.

Explanation. Usually when people hear the word "treaty", they 
begin to represent currently some lilac print, legal entities, 
forms with logos of companies on the stamp paper with the 
florid signatures of cool guys. It's all nonsense, a chimera. 
In practice, this means that you have something to me promise, 
and I'll promise something, and we then Keep your words. The 
paper in this case is necessary, so that nothing is forgotten 
and to avoid any ambiguity later. This is done by INSTITUTION 
purpose, eg is creating a structure in very narrow and 
primitive sense. At the same time means that my and your 
performance in this case increases compared with the situation, 
if we acted independently of each other. A

improving the efficiency of - this
there is profit. Contract usually expires
in fact, that if someone stops
suit, it just did not perform - similar to the other side thinks
free from some obligation,
if they are not respected partner. It is considered good form 
to notify the partner of termination liabilities.


   In particular the list of 3.4 (or
similar devices) could agree on advertising support. At the 
moment, made much easier than sell. If it were otherwise, the 
plants would not standing - they can not sell - they have

There are no corresponding structures. It's just
muscle tissue, biomass, does not structurally organized. It's 
like a guerrilla unit, where each fights for himself and, 
besides, - against all. According to the list of devices listed 
in section 3.4 could advertise. Option 2: 

   1). You just send me 100-200
ind. promotional leaflets, A4 and / or A5, and I
distribute them through its own channels for their
account. Who and where there will be selling what and whose 
details will be there - I nachhat. Importantly, the device must 
be Spectrum'ovskim, via bus Nemo-bus (or

another standard butt), ie plugged in without KAY'yu 
provodochkov and tips. Another thing is that in the main 
directory will note that the firm does not bear Nemo any 
responsibility for this hard - All questions on these details.


   2). Selling your devices through (c)
Nemo, - but it's after work on the first
option, because implies a necessary partner in any way and 
should be verified by the scheme 1). 

   Again, the list of section 3.4 can be
to agree on the supply of components - is certain to be such a 
problem. 

   I think that you hardly will treat with understanding and 
due attention to the fact that written. Remember this when you

try to do something. In particular,
that are not put stamps, characterizes
You are not the best way. You're probably thinking that money 
is taken just like that - as bread in the trees. Only need not

too lazy to rip.

                                (C) Nemo.


   Several firms comment (c) iSDOS
to the question about mice:


   Nemo: "It is not clear where in ISDOS'e suddenly will 
undertake the mouse driver ... etc ... "


   It is unclear quite different, namely: that
understood by the mouse driver? If the support level menu 
(restart # 91) and file panels, all this has already been 
written Fedorov (author Editor Picasso), yet in the 1994th 
year. Such support required modifications (adds about 100 bytes 
of code) kernel, only no 0-th, writes Nemo, as well as time, 
4-th and 5-th, ie, the two highest levels

nucleus. It was these one hundred bytes and nedostanet
now for such a mouse support in iSDOS Classic. (In iSDOS Chic 
memory still, seem to be enough). And no withdrawal or 
reduction of resident USER-memory will not help. With an 
increase in core simply cease to be installed the following 
additional levels of the system, and namely: Database (they 
will have to recompile, and they sit even lower) and debugger 
ViOS.sys (from him, I even source not). Incidentally, the 
removal of some residents should not affect on system 
performance as opposed to representations of Nemo. 

   If the same kind of support (menus and toolbars) are not 
required (and I think that the mouse here is needed as a cow, 
I'm sorry, saddle, and even on an IBM PC without much prefer

need not resort to it), then we need only
somehow refer to the mouse from
application. If this interface is standardized, we can write
and a resident driver, and the program is already
does not directly get into the ports and look for the driver 
among the established and question already him. Memory, of 
course, like any other resident drivers will take, but deadly 
to OS is of course not. Although the meaning of

draw the whole thing as a separate
Resident appears only when a large number of applications that 
use mouse. Graphic editors Picasso Art

Studios will have to "teach" refer to the
mouse controller, or that driver. Source from which the firm 
iSDOS again not. Who will do this

adaptation and / or writing new programs under iSDOS, who 
desperately need a mouse (and despite the fact that under the 
general iSDOS write few new programs) that is the

the main question!

                Alexei Leontiev. 28.2.00