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Pravetz-16, etc. (Miscellaneous)

posted by lucho, 21.11.2007, 18:20

> Socialist societies don't work - and they leech off the success of "capitalist society".
I don't know what is "leech off", but socialist societies did work great for many decades and could continue to work, not only in Bulgaria but also in many other countries. The still work in some countries, with the due reforms. For the first time in human history, there was no hunger, no unemployment, no fear for tomorrow. But we allowed some traitors to climb to the top and they betrayed us.

> That's why you have "LZ-DOS" and "Pravetz-16" - both of which are
> Microsoft software renamed. Hell, "Pravetz-16" still has the Microsoft
> Copyright clause in it, it's more obvious than LZ-DOS.
Pravetz-16 is a computer, not a program. If you mean the P16DOS Assembler, the Microsoft copyright notice there is from the run-time library of the Microsoft C compiler, which was used to compile the executable file, and is by no means an indication that the program itself was written by Micrisoft. You should have known this if you've worked with this compiler. In general, most compilers' run-time libraries leave their "stamp" in the executable file.

> As far as the loader goes - you can't just copy/paste a loader built into
> the MS-DOS kernel into your own independent kernel. It's a part of the
> kernel that was stolen. Who cares if the rest is stolen?
First, let me repeat that I don't accept the word "stolen" to be applied for software. Second, the loader is just the second part of the boot record and doesn't do anything special. So it's possible to "inject" it into the kernel.

> If you get a car named the "BulgariaCar" with the decals removed and the
> serial numbers filed off that says its 100% made in Bulgaria and you open
> up and find the engine has "Honda" written on it -- there's no need to
> prove anything else. You've already proven it was a lie.
There is no car or any other machine completely made in a particular country anymore. For example, the aforementioned Pravetz-16 was made in Bulgaria, but many parts were made in the USSR and other countries, some even imported from the West, circumventing your embargoes. So we can say "assembled in Bulgaria" but not really "100% made in Bulgaria". When you see a label "made in XYZ" on any machine, you surely know that it really means "assembled in XYZ" instead. Anyway, nowadays everything is made in China, and Bulgaria missed its chance.

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