Open Letters #04 21 октября 2000

Nemo open letters № 4.2

630107 11.05.2000


           Nemo, Hello!


   It should be probably introduce: BURST
IFLASH. I will try to briefly and clearly state the most 
important thing. 

   The purpose of this writings: I suggest you
do together card for SPECCY.

   The reasons that I call it
to you:

   1. I love SPECCY and hope that you
also not indifferent to SPECCY.

   2. You are a professional versed in
electronics.

   3. This is too serious a job for
one person, but among my friends
Nobody dared.

   4. I do not agree with the fact that iron
SPECCY not supported by the software.

   a) Basis of determining SPECCY, (with your words) - it's 
personnel or scan resolution of 256 * 192, 16 colors, ie, it's 
TV. But squeezed out of the TV away not all.


   b) The people need bread and circuses. Ability to 
comfortably work on SPECCY. A You do not have enough speed or 
CPU, or memory (128 Kb) depending on the tasks. Ask Mednonogova 
how difficult it squeezes out the last of the old SPECCY.

And this extra useless waste of time and effort (iron 
poshustree and work easier). 

   c) operating system - it is certainly good, but any
OS slows Applied softiny =>
see item b).

   ...

   5. Why not listen to the MDE SPECCY?! Yes easily - stuck a 
chip and listen you like.


   6. These reasons, the weight, but most importantly, if the 
issue SPECCY directly with twists and reserve for the future 
freaks, then as you wrote, you get a MONSTER. But there is

another option: why not make
other CPU work in parallel Z80 and do all the grunt work. 
Establish the ability to upgrade cards, the people at

SPECCY not rich. And while much can and
move the OS to SPECCY. Why do the dirty work when the OS is 
working in card. Software for OS easier to write clearly.


   Now the main thing.

   Possible structure of the card.


        [Here is given by the scheme]

 SPECCY - SPECTRUM with any bus KAY,
 DMA - channel DMA,
 The microprocessor will provide decryption
SPECCY, and there is flexibility
 adjust the reaction to the ports and states.
(For example, PIC).
 Shadow RAM - any SRAM ROM replaces SPECCY (PY10).
 ADC - analog-digital converter
desirable stereo 16 bit, frequency 47
 kHz.
 ROM - works off the BIOS reset, then
do not need (p ^ 2).
 IDE - any hard drive.
 DAC - how can a GS, but the best 2 channel
to 16 bit.
 SIMM - either up to 16 Mb.
 VIDEO-card - full support
TV-image, better than SECAM.
 CD-ROM - whatever.
 CMOS - ordinary watch.
 MDE - chip to play SSE (now
I do not remember).
 CPU - preferably a fast and compatible with
Z80 to facilitate writing software
 (Z380).


   The microprocessor will emulate
the majority of the stock to SPECCY and program their ports.

   The card will replace the GS, rock
VIDEO in SPECCY, emulate mat. coprocessor, emulate TR-DOS on 
the screw, digitize, and much emulated SOUNDRIVE another, as 
the software it is pumped. 

   Well, here's a brief all.

   I, in turn, I'll write
Download universal decoder and
Software emulation of GS. You - to realize the iron
cards.

   To demonstrate the seriousness of the intentions
undertake to carry out small TK.

   On the conditions of performance - on a voluntary basis.

   The minimum configuration of cards:
CPU, universal decoder, DMA, and logic. The rest should be no 
problem (PLUG AND PLAY) or stick to the panels, or

slots, after work.

   Gladly listen to your
options on the card, so choose
the best option (best is the enemy of the good).

P.S. I look forward to productive cooperation.

P.S.S. Such a card would have to be
done much earlier.

P.S.S.S. Sorry for the ugly Russian.

   I await your reply.

                                       N.


   I have found something important to say. In addition to
open architecture card must
take the opportunity to program in
it, ie, one program will work
on SPECCY, and another to load and will
work in the card.

   Since the card is designed from scratch
(No standards), the iron will be quite compact and optimal. All 
in card quite easily implemented for

Except VIDEO-card), I do not know how
it is optimal to implement, and it is not optimal, too, may be 
worthwhile to do VIDEO-memory). MA, in principle, is also not as

too difficult to implement.

   In my opinion, this is a real prospect
Development SPECCY, not limited to a compatibility problem with 
SPECTRUM'om. Moreover, If well thought out internal standards, 
we can over time produce a different motherboard and cards, or 
... 

   Open architecture will allow hassle-free to make iron and 
all other under the card. Although priority will be for

You (the developers), the microcontroller does not
is copied.

                                       N.



                               19.05.2000


              Dear N!


   1.Veroyatno, I am a person interested in the development of 
Spectrum'a, - but This is why it sickens me masochism

Type what you set out for more.

   2. I am professionally engaged in (to work) in Spectrum'e 
qualified and versed in electronics. The notion of 
professionalism means (including as a necessary condition but 
not sufficient!) qualification. Ie REAL qualified person is a 
professional. Professionalism implies a broader view of things, 
rather than qualification. Professional EARNS MONEY in their 
professional interests. This implies that it does something 
useful for others, for that may be paid the money - that is,

is someone has to, and therefore, it is worth
money. A curious exception is the
a professional crook who is also a qualified engineer. In
this case, the benefits do not need the result
is a crowd (skotobaza), requiring
bread and circuses. The only trouble is that
This process quickly leads to a dead end, and a regular, 
serious production impossible - that is, it is a single METHOD

grab the money, rather than production. Production involves 
investments in the years forward, the regularity and continuity 
- otherwise it is impossible.


   3. This is not a serious work, regardless
the number of people.

   4. I do not agree with what you are "... not
agree that iron Speccy not supported by the software. "Let us 
all expand on the shelves. Software - a product

not code and not the program. Indeed,
CLASSIC SPECTRUM (Spectrum-48 and
features of Spectrum-128 (Amstrad 3 +)) is well supported by 
software. Ie created mass programs that are useful to someone, 
let They even play (including). Created

As the product they are in the West (including
Poland and Hungary - although there has already begun
Durkee associated with Coding, and not with the creation of 
software products - these are different things - pay 
attention!) - and only partially, with substantial reservations,

in Russia. How many were created PRODUCTS
under expansion (compared with Spectrum-128) architecture? They 
can be counted on his fingers (one of these programs - ISDOS). 
At the same time to create a whole trends Coding, not related 
to SOFTWARE! Example - demomeyking. Kindly tell me, well, who 
needs These demos except the demomeykerov?

Does anyone even pay a penny for these
COOL creation? No - because as a good
Zero. Therefore, the demo is not commercial software, not a 
product - it is no more sophisticated than the RCD. Now

system software - seems to be there
progress. Indeed, "progress"
more than enough - but why do we need systemic
program if, ultimately, they do not
create software? Ie Commercial software? Ie software to TRUE
Make sense? Is it reasonable to produce steel
just to produce steel?
Does it make sense to make machines that will do just machines? 
This is absurd. Moreover, there are no adequate criteria for 
assessing the quality of system software, if it does not lead 
to create the ultimate, commercial, consumer SOFTWARE PRODUCTS. 
Ie This is again a code, not software.


   We can assume that Coding, ie
code generation for code (himself), and
CONSUMER companies are filling. But
a progressive idiocy that leads
to countless chimeras which has no relation to reality. 
Oriented production under such a consumer it is impossible - it 
is inadequate. His behavior unpredictable, random preferences 
and chaotic - the situation is not computed,

ie production is impossible. Even assuming
For technical reasons - not to mention
already on the moral. What do trainers for
idiot, it's better to go to
wipers. Ie to drain the excess water and
extinguish lights. Then right Zonov, - Spectrum must be 
destroyed so as not to multiply the number of mentally 
defective people, and not Durkee produce - and the most 
hard-nosed transplant on a PC (good for the consequences of 
responsible Americans - Zonov only performer their will).


   By the way, actual development of hardware /
Architecture Spectrum'a confirms the above
said. Settled down and were in demand, only those innovations 
in architecture, that improve consumer content companies 
through more efficient use of already created under the 
Spectrum-128 SOFT (ie, soft in the right sense - namely, the 
product, not code). Do you think 256 Kb in Scorpion'e was

done in order to CODER nalepili
there CODE? 128 Kb additional memory -
a springboard for attacks on the SOFTWARE AVAILABLE - by Shadow
monitor. Ie fitting for "harrowing" (adaptation) AVAILABLE IN 
WEST Soft. Only then, when the flow of program

from the West dried up, the shadow monitor was used (along with 
128 Kb of RAM) for Coding - ie, for an idle pastime. The same 
applies to the turbo mode - it increases consumer content 
companies by increasing Quality of functioning of an existing

software. This was not done in order to
Encoders sculptured komandochki 2 times faster. The same 
applies to 1024 Kb of RAM - it KVAZIDISKOVOD, not a space for

idly by encoding the public - that is, architectural innovation 
for more convenient yuzaniya ALREADY AVAILABLE SOFTWARE. The 
tire is no exception. Thus, under AVAILABLE SOFT managed to 
extend essentially architecture - well, where the support? 
Machine BEFORE YET ERP work on the old software and sell

they can only reason that
managed to improve the functioning of already
AVAILABLE SOFTWARE, as well as reduce operating costs. Recently 
released new program under 256 Kb Megatetris

created BRIGADE programmers FOUR
YEAR. This monstrous, titanic work,
- Where you still find these zealots? I
personally think that if they knew that
they will, then do not come from behind to
work. And now think how many man-years required to create the 
SOFTWARE PRODUCT volume 1024 Kb? I am particularly stress: not 
NAKODIT, and create a product. 

   Imagine what would have rabies
coders when they read it - but
nothing good pat on the square
the head and say here that it
still square, not round. They have a
believe that they pupy land - but the apparatchiks inhibits the 
development of Spectrum'a, - in your letter is not stated, but 
implied. Therefore, based on the foregoing, let me stay at 
former stance - iron Spectrum'a not supported by software in 
the part that has evolved. It makes no sense further fuss - not 
to rely on - no software. 

   Finally make a curtsy in the direction of
coders - that really was not brutalized.
Shocking in the coding can only be meaningfully
in that case, if someone PROFESSIONAL
USING THE HOURS coders in the Software Products. If not, then 
the occupation loses its meaning. Similarly, with 
demomeykingom, but about it below. Here is an example. In 
Moscow is one Jason, that will accelerate OS'i work several 
times. (This is to ensure that "... every OS slows Applied 
softiny.") I do not think that it somehow especially 
peretrudilis, and even more spent on it for 4 years - this is 
not important. In this case the result is important - it really 
increase the effectiveness of OS'i in hundreds (maybe over 
time, and thousands) users. Ie people knew that he was doing, 
and most importantly - why. He found the weak point of the 
system - namely, the hard disk driver, and rewrote them. The 
effect of classroom coding multiplied by consumer benefits REAL 
SOFTWARE. 

   Demomeyking can also be viewed as a resource / test site for 
producing efficient code snippets. But even an indirect effect 
through the use of SOFTWARE PRODUCT is problematic. Demo 
entirely rely the specificity of the specific video processors

clones. But the specifics of video processors
generally speaking - is degree of deviation
FROM STANDARD TV. Ie the public relies
on the curvature of their machines. It is clear that
Each praises his bog, hill
my flower bed and pulls the blanket over himself. Ie
this is a very good support for clones (and
rather, their curvature) Spectrum'a and very
poor support Spectrum'a as a kind of
whole, ie platform. So in conclusion
try schematically recursively by inclusion of sets (no more 
than speculation, does not claim to some sort of final

and absolute truth - that is, should
seen as something that claims,
primarily on the clarity) show
how to understand the relations between the concepts
CODE / PROGRAM / PRODUCT. Something like
dolls. CODE is included in the program and the program, in 
turn, the SOFTWARE PRODUCT. If you analyze the activities of 
any Spectrum-firms (not just software, and hardware - you'll 
find all of the above components. (Table 1). 


CRITERIA-LEVEL WEIGHT requirements
EVALUATION of qualitative (%
Ba

                                       SOS
                                       TA
                                       BE

                                       PRO
                                       AQL

                                       TA)

 - Return level of the program - handling Nogo PRODUCT
 - Sustainability
 - Availability of promising structures
 - Utility / on:
demand - the spread of
Product - Supply

                     - Advertising-in
                    forms. Support

                     - The creation of prop
                    idents software

                     - Maintenance

                     The presence of a person firms
                    we have: 85

                     - Concepts

                     - Ideology

                     - Strategy

                     Availability of business

                    reputation and ade
                    vatnosti

                     - Experience

                    (Background) on

                    market

                     - Predictability

                    and stability

                     - Mandatory

                     - Continuity

                     The presence of intrinsic
                    but programs

 - The adequacy of the level of the program
Problem
 - Conceptual - presales
but-ideological test
Consistency - the presence of well - the software of the 
interface with compatibility (such as user

about the equipment, so (data
and non-executable software
medium) FILES: help'y with - easy inter-putstvuyuschie Base 12
Faith of data, examples
 - The number of non-work
Diagnostic errors caught
in commercial communications)
version - adapted tools
                    adaptation to specific
                    software and apparatus
                    inverse medium

                     - Dokumentirova
                    of (hard to
                    Pia)

                     - Your own code

 - Code density, the level of code
Expandability
(Quality of coded - actually holds isvaniya code
 - Neat package (com - files) 3
(Nedok. team
work with the ports)
 - Structuring, reliability,
transferability



   5. "Ask Mednonogova, how difficult
it squeezes out the last of the old SPECCY ".
And do not ask, I know. Issue a
not the case. The question is whether
"... It does not have enough speed or
CPU, or memory (128 Kb )..." To
to judge things like "what missing /
what is lacking, one should at least
To do something yourself, fuck the REAL
SUBMISSION about it. Ie UNDERSTAND / KNOW what the real 
limitations - until You also "know" their own chimeras -

on the principle - well there, where we have not.
Memory - now a Mb, a CPU works
almost 2 times faster. But where
The result? Where soft, I wonder? His
no. How to write a thank Spectrum 128,
and writes. You think less labor
require traditional way to write software? Under SP-48 on the 
west software created about a year. Under 256 Kb program has 
already created MT2000 FOUR YEARS! Asked how much need

time to create a product under 1 Mb?
Answer: 16 years. But this is absurd. As they say - the road 
spoon for dinner - and dad Mom probably will not feed you

Sixteen years - that is, A professional approach is needed. And 
it's the impossible WITHOUT OS'i. How much will it cost softina,

which requires for its creation in 1916
years? Program of Fame Mednonogova under
128th Spectrum is created, on average,
2 years and costs approximately (for dealers) 60
rub. Multiply by 8 (1024:128 = 8) and receive about 500 rubles. 
Well? 

   It is not only a failure to comply with copyright law 
(although this is important). There and deeper, more general 
considerations. Spectrum is ideally suited to classes of 
problems that it solved. And for their solutions SPECIFICATIONS

SUFFICIENT. By the way, something no one could hear
Mednonogova of Fame, that he lacks
hardware capacity - is not the case.
Therefore, the question right the engagement of additional 
hardware resources (in excess of architecture of SP-128) - is 
the question NEW Statements of problems. Do they exist, and

if so, what is the problem?
Presumably this is primarily
OS'evye PURPOSE. Under OS'evymi problem is understood the 
problem, can not be resolved on the architecture of SP-128. 
Cursory list: 

   - The OS itself (without the screw, 128 Kb to OS'i
too little. Attempts to use OS'i
lead to statements like: "... every OS
slows down the application softiny "-
correctly, they do not have enough space ...)

   - BBS. (Requires File operations,
availability BASE files, etc. etc.)

   - Tekstonositeli (shell) (require
low complexity (technological)
a) desired hypertext, mobile files, interoperability of files -
ie again file operation.

   - Programmer 27HHH (where XXX> 512)
(Similar operations are required on the file - one BASE 
firmware tentatively can reach several megabytes -

ie necessary and Winchester, and (preferably but not 
necessarily) 1Mb RAM). Imagine this idiocy on diskettes, medium 
TRDOS'a. Well, for example, a comparison two firmware 
(verification ROM) type 27080 - this is the file operation.

Ie ONLY OS'.

   I'll note that if the screw RAM
loses its meaning. In KAY'e it involved
under KVAZIDISKOVOD, ie Docking OS'i
with TRDOS'ovskim SOFTWARE.

   6. Let us return to the statement "... every OS
slows down the application softiny. "What
true is true. But what this conclusion?
Do you think 1024 Kb of code you can
created without control program that, in fact, will serve as the
OS'i? If you think this is so, then
it impassable stupidity, bordering on
madness. Stupidity punishable, - 16 years of
start to finish. Can proceed directly
Now to the walls of their own proshibaniyu
forehead. Parallel work - ie, organize a parallel work of 
several programmers - will not work because traditional 
software system, designed under TRDOS'om, it does not fit.

Ie You can, of course, to cure tonsils through the ass, but 
whether or not bother? Those same 16 years from start to finish.

Now, suppose that you realize that
required osepodobnaya control program. But the very creation of 
such a program ... again the same 16 years. And then, from the 
confidence that the established osepodobnaya program will be 
effective (productive) OS'i? Ie the same brake from which we 
started ... You can, of course, compared with the full package 
ISDOS'a trim function - but then the package itself

ISDOS'a can cut up to blitz version -
strictly by the task, and nothing more. (As
This is done in tekstonositele "Op.
let. ") Please note that we do not even
talking about reliability of your osepodobnoy program - 
although it is a separate problem - qualifications are not 
important - important professional approach. And then, finally, 
what will your VERSATILITY osepodobnoy program? If it is not

universal, then inevitably at its creation will have to apply 
OS'. And since junction with OS'yu is not obvious, ie hidden in 
the making, then you will be guaranteed a shoal matyugov from 
users - program-it would be incompatible with anything but 
itself. Can so much more to say but I think, and this

enough. Admit that there is something to think about.

   7. "... Squeezed from TV is not everything."
Again, true. You can squeeze out yet, but is it necessary? 
Television, in principle, can give a somewhat higher resolution 
- not many times, and the interest (~ 20% of the number of 
pixels - 30% maximum - the curb will not, and part of the image 
to "eat" or disfigure scan). What do you think, why did 256 
pixels per line, and not 257? Or 300? All that over 256 pixels 
will be used IMPOSSIBLE - plummet processor in image 
processing, plummet code density. Ie get worse. Architecture 
lose integrity and harmony. Architecture Spectrum'a Ideal for 
TV, - ie any change in UHUDSHAET TOTAL / performance company. 
Therefore, Spectrum and lasts, no matter how playful pen or 
mutilated architecture. A similar argument can be made for 
resolution in color. 

   8. I do not know what MDE - presumably
because the subject is not commercial, ie,
Unprofessional - at least on
Spectrum'e.

   "... Easily thrust ...", chip - that's
Stick, just like that, "... simply stuck" ... and all.

   9. The concept of "MONSTER", - as you write,
- This is not a technical one, in fact, the concept.
This chimera, apparently masked technical terminology. Speaking 
of technical terms does not eliminate the chimeras, but on the 
contrary, their fruit. When a person articulates the technical 
terms without understanding their essence and meaning of life 
(in scientific language is sounds like the ontological aspect), 
is a division of sound and meaning - the words is without 
meaning - it just sounds hot air, generating chimeras, ie, 
MONSTR'ov. Your project-mongering is not exception. This is 
also MONSTR. Ontological essence of a monster - it is eaten 
passionate man BLANK IDEA, which as a result of stupidity and 
ignorance acquires flesh and technical terminology, ie, words. 
As the saying goes, The Sleep of Reason produces monsters. Of 
chimeras exist the only way to get rid - try it in practice to 
implement them. When They usually burst like soap bubbles with 
a touch of cotton, leaving a scratch. Itself as speaking - is 
ritual of the demigod PROGRESS creates a sweet sensation in 
humans ownership of this very demigod. So

say, the sense of a common mass psychosis. Networks are havens
of psychosis, as There's no PROFESSIONALS - ie, people who have 
experience praxis, "know how", - and are able to distinguish 
the essence of a real object (even having absolutely abstract 
status - status of Plato - for example, the architecture of 
Spectrum) of the chimera. 

   So I do not even want to go into
details so as not to fuel the chimera.
The only thing that I notice that only one DESCRIPTION / USER'S 
GUIDE TO SUCH unit will weigh more

kilogram. Moreover, it is not even on the
Price replication / distribution. Where
You'll find an idiot, that's read everything? And where you'll 
find an idiot who write it all?


   "... You - to realize the hardware card ..." - Ie You want 
to get rid of Chimera for my own account (or rather,

at the expense of my users) - interesting
bending thought, agree.

   "To demonstrate the seriousness of intent ..." - Or rather, 
the sincerity of confusion, the public is usually wrote: "I 
have it ready buy. "These words in your letter was found. 
Coupled with the" bread and circuses "that leads to the sad 
reflections. If you want to communicate with me (so to speak 
separately) to negotiate and throw public on a regular shit, 
this is not to me. There is accordingly proven firm 
specializing in products made from papier-mache (dummy). You 
did not even have to write - loud enough to scream about the 
merits and specifications - for example,

in the same network (as Denis Parinov). The firm, which 
specializes on models (and the actually sells pisyukami) will 
be strongly support you in your madness - the main thing that 
you do not forget to mention her logo (advertising, after all).


   "... Small TK. We return to the table
1. What do you want me to provide?
CODE, program or product? Product you
will not be able to create, as are not
firm. About the program is great
doubts: - help'y spelling
errors ... Well, the RCD (3% of labor - I
and he can write - is simple enough -
Shiryaev). But even if you are able to write a simple program 
(which is by no means obvious, that it must still prove) then 
on you would need technical Proposal (TP). And as TK wrote the 
customer. In this case, I will act towards you as an employer 
(85% of need to learn to me). In addition, probably, I will 
provide you with supplies, equipment (model) to provide (and 
pay), communication / coordination. Moreover, I have also teach 
you to work. Now imagine the situation. I call: "Well, written? 
"And you reply:" Yes, that's ... Yes here ... Yes I am ... My 
mother sent Lessons do (in Russian). "Where do we find

I invested the money? That's right, there
where they have invested - ie, under the cat
tail. Or discuss it with parents?

   We return to the TA. Your letter can be viewed as such - 
more specifically - the inability / lack of understanding or my 
interests, nor the feasibility, meaningfulness of any 
(reasonable). Missing even a sense of measures. Why not drawn 
square "Cache"? Usually in such chimeras it

is always present. All other attributes are chimeras there.

   "... On a voluntary basis." - Ie I
should voluntarily invest you money?
Under what safeguards? Under the "voluntary"
from your side? Generally speaking, there are ways RANDOM 
CONTRACT WITH PARTY. The man makes me TA and IF

IT suits me, he / she
TOR (from my side!). Then he buys
iron, and I GIVE PROMISE (liability)
pay (reimburse the cost of iron) money on implementation. In 
this case, I was spared from running for "programmer"

Learning from his work, etc.

   In for a penny, in for a pound.
If you undertake to work for, it means that he is able to 
execute it (in the agreed framework) without outside 
assistance. Help - it costs money. So, to You are not overly 
excited, to say that from dozens of people offered their 
services, could really do the job only two - three (the third 
case controversial). Others, in fact, just bought iron.


   "With pleasure is ready to listen ...
etc. "On this occasion, to tell the bike. Y
I have a distant acquaintance who works for the LGU matmehe. He 
was on faculty "Youngest" so he held several menial work and 
patching holes. One of the orders of senior members were 
replies to letters of workers over the known solutions of 
Fermat's theorem. Elder friends admonished him as follows: "The 
main thing is not fixed and not pointed out deficiencies (holes 
in the proof) - not to get a cart, that month is not 
rashlebaesh. "Situation something spicy - LSU - a statesman. 
institution, and it is obliged to respond to letters. It is 
clear that soap operas are not help in the work ... - and polite

government official to be obliged. I have, thank
God, the situation is simpler: - I - a merchant,
in fact, I write what I think -
without rassharkivany on diplomatic parquet.

   "... A productive collaboration." -
This mountain epistolary genre.

   "... Such a card would have to be
done much earlier. "So this is already
done - albeit in more modest
scale. Is experience GMX and Sprinter'a
nobody taught anything? Think if
add steepness (specifications / settings / modes / units)
would be better? This is the root STUPIDITY -
the notion that the development of technical specifications 
automatically leads to an increase in the consumer properties 
com. Not so simple. Technically, serviceable and operable 
things can (and often the case) CLOSED FOR LIFE

(Ie, ontologically - by Pelevin "ontological" means "STE - 
logical." Joke is that the West is ontological and understand). 
In relation to Spectrum'u as a holistic concept (eidos), we can 
say that almost all the extensions are destroying that same 
integrity, the organic, the harmony - that is, REALLY 
UHUDSHAYUT ARCHITECTURE. Some of the same "extension" type 
suggested you do not have anything to do with Spectrum'u. It 
may be that such architectures potentially possible in practice 
- but they have nothing to do with Spectrum'u. "Best is the 
enemy of the good"; "... designed from scratch (NO STANDARDS 
)..." - You, on the indeed, indicate that you offer

architecture has no relation to the
Spectrum'u.

   "... A compact and optimal." - Do not
all that is compact and optimal technical, functional in real 
life. You can create a device - but you create a platform not 
can - regardless of my help. 

   "... In my opinion, this is a real prospect of SPECCY, not 
limited to a compatibility problem with Spectrum'om. You 
themselves, you realize that said here? Think at your leisure. 

   Thank you for "priority". Hopefully, it was
not very offensive and very helpful.


                                (C) Nemo.

P.S. As an application of "Op. Let."
fragment of the interview Lozinski.


   Dmitry Lozinski, perpetual fighter against virus writers, 
creator of the popular Russian anti-virus programs do not

believes hackers people, worthy of discussion. In his view, 
they are regrettable, but not hot interest. 

   - Soil for hacking, - he said in
conversation with a reporter, "CG" - is
Teens 12 - 14 years who received
its disposal a computer and learned
write computer programs that, in
Basically, it is very difficult. Some of
They enthusiastically engaged in this, 2
then quit, but on some it works like a drug. Here they are 
self-fulfilling, here met their self-esteem, here in this 
virtual world, they "Can do everything." In fact, they can not

anything - because the ability to write programs similar 
ability to translate from one language to another. Fully 
immersed in your computer world, they are deprived of the 
opportunity to learn a lot of "unnecessary" things they deprive 
themselves of knowledge that could really make them highly 
skilled. Deprived of these outsiders, "Useless" knowledge, they 
can just translate, they can not create a new idea or come up 
with an algorithm for its implementation - and is 99% of cases. 
Such specialists are very few people need them a dime a dozen. 
And then, unrecognized, useless, they are hackers. After that, 
nobody would ever in any computer firm will not accept - is that

by mistake. Who needs people with unstable mentality, capable 
of revenge and enclose in a system of "depth charge"

that will work in a year - or two? And get rid of a passion for 
hacking is hardly lighter than for drug addiction or alcoholism.


   - But perhaps I am somewhat naive -
adds Lozinski. - Initially, the ninetieth
I coarsely disgraced. Speaking in one of
television programs, I said that hacking in 2 years will come 
to naught. I do not could imagine that writing the same type 
"virus" or burglary with the same master key can be practiced

longer than 2 years - in the end, it
just bored!

   Hackers, of course, for such attacks
respond with rage. However, in their texts
no need to look serious arguments. The first - "we are not 
thieves, we are just people who are interested in computer 
device, we have the right to the pursuit of knowledge. "

(In other words, if someone in my absence, break the door of my 
apartment, and with interest begins to dig into my closets and 
desks, then it should not me irritating, even if not stolen 
anything.) The second type of argument several guards: "You are 
trying to hang a label on the" hacker "- wrote their supporters 
one of the internet magazines. - Why not hang a label on the 
"policeman" or "policy"? I know almost as much

cases of police corruption, and how many cases of hacking other 
people's servers. Why do you do not exclaim that all the police 
- it is pus, thieves and murderers? "


             Mikhail Izmailov

             Vladimir Pokrovsky.