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From: Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
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Subject: Re: The DOS 3.3 SYS.COM Bug Hunt
Date: 26 Feb 2025 17:24:46 -0400
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On 26 Feb 2025 04:31:55 -0400, Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
>> Never did get him to tell me how you program a Mac.
> 
> Didn't you think to ask anybody else?

Not then, no.  Why would I want to take on, as a prelude to doing what
*I* wanted to do, engaging with and defeating the apparently organized
intentions of he people selling the product?

Of course I later knew people writing code for the Mac.  But I have no
regrets about casually abandoning any notion of trying to break into
and then work in Mac's walled garden.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada