ac> I believe he [David Nugent] worked on parts of 
ac> Maximus (don't know which).  He also wrote a number of
ac> other FidoNet programs, notably InspectA and NLMaint. 
 
You're right, he worked on max -- I don't know he worked on either, though.
 
Notably InspectA and NLMaint, though? I'd say most notably, the BNU FOSSIL
driver. Far more BBSes ran BNU than will ever run InspectA or NLMaint. And
before you say serial FOSSIL drivers aren't fido tech, I'll remind you that
FOSSIL stands for Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer (or something
very similar)
 
ac> If it were really that good you wouldn't have so much trouble porting  
Well, it's really not that bad (yes, I've read your next post). The
unportability comes here from three primary sources -- 1. the desire to
produce fast code for slow boxes; 2. the desire to produce small code for
small boxes; 3. the fact that C++ has morphed a LOT since the early '90s.
 
3 is completely forgiveable. 1 and 2 are merely design decisions. :) If you
have 1 and 2 as design tennants, then portability to other platforms goes
out the window, unless you include portability as another design decision.
That final design decision adds a lot of cost to the development process
NOW and would have been a very bad business decision in 1990 (hey, lets
double our costs so we can have zero or one more customers!)
 
:)
 
Cheers,
Wes

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