'The binary is the source'... allora aveva ragione Raf!!!
Visto che Raf diceva qualcosa tipo: "Tutto è OpenSource se si conosce l'assembler..." aveva perfettamente ragione!!! 😜
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However - one day a tester raised the issue that he could not find the source code for IDLE.COM. When he alerted Program Management and Development about this the Virtual PC Lead Developer - Aaron Giles (http://www.aarongiles.com/) - responded by smiling and saying 'The binary is the source'.
Needless to say this resulted in a number of blank stares and furrowed brows - until Aaron explained that he hand-constructed IDLE.COM in assembly using DEBUG. So he was completely justified in saying that the binary was the source. Since this time we have added a second hand-constructed file - 'VMADD386.SYS' which was also built by Aaron.
And - on a slightly related note - it turns out that this is not the first instance of this at Microsoft. The following Knowledge Base article on 'REBOOT.COM':http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q67929/tells users how to 'build their own REBOOT.COM' using DEBUG. Hmmm... You have to think it would have been easier to just let people download the file 😊
Source: What do you mean 'The binary is the source'?