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  • Interview with Kyan Pascal creator

    From A2CPM@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 30 16:24:53 2023
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO-LyfNBjfE&t=1423s

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  • From Kent Dickey@21:1/5 to a2@wilserv.com on Thu Jul 6 18:00:38 2023
    In article <4a8cbe00-b4a5-4506-849a-d5d1ee84291fn@googlegroups.com>,
    A2CPM <a2@wilserv.com> wrote: >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO-LyfNBjfE&t=1423s

    It was an interesting interview, but only from a "founder's" perspective.
    In summary: they made enough money to pay the employees and for operations,
    but the founders didn't make much. Kyan was apparently bought out by
    Apple, but I'm not sure what Apple did with this purchase.

    Googling shows a Kyan product list, which included a "Code Optimizer
    Toolkit" which includes the source code for the Runtime Library. I would
    be interested in this, but it seems there is no archive of this anywhere.

    Kent

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  • From Jerry Penner@21:1/5 to Kent Dickey on Thu Jul 6 12:58:50 2023
    kegs@provalid.com (Kent Dickey) writes:

    In article <4a8cbe00-b4a5-4506-849a-d5d1ee84291fn@googlegroups.com>,
    A2CPM <a2@wilserv.com> wrote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO-LyfNBjfE&t=1423s

    It was an interesting interview, but only from a "founder's" perspective.
    In summary: they made enough money to pay the employees and for operations, but the founders didn't make much. Kyan was apparently bought out by
    Apple, but I'm not sure what Apple did with this purchase.

    Googling shows a Kyan product list, which included a "Code Optimizer
    Toolkit" which includes the source code for the Runtime Library. I would
    be interested in this, but it seems there is no archive of this anywhere.

    Not sure if you already know about this...


    This ZIP file, http://www.appleoldies.ca/kix/KYANDSK.ZIP, contains a
    disk image named CODEOPT.DSK that contains:

    /OPTIMIZER
    LIB BIN $9000 25 11873 <no date>
    OP BIN $0800 11 4634 1987-Jan-16 20:00
    OPLIB.MAIN1.I TXT $0002 63 31607 1986-Jul-28 00:00
    OPLIB.MAIN2.I TXT $0002 59 29392 <no date>
    OPLIB.PASCAL.I TXT $0002 46 22685 1986-Aug-23 00:00
    SIEVE.P TXT $0002 1 507 1986-Aug-13 00:00
    SIEVE.PC BIN $0800 3 978 1986-Aug-13 00:00
    SIEVE.OP BIN $0800 8 3108 1986-Aug-13 00:00
    Free space: 206 blocks

    The .I files are assembler source, fwiw.


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    Jerry jerry+a2 at jpen.ca

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  • From Steven Hirsch@21:1/5 to Kent Dickey on Fri Jul 7 08:45:44 2023
    On 7/6/23 14:00, Kent Dickey wrote:
    In article <4a8cbe00-b4a5-4506-849a-d5d1ee84291fn@googlegroups.com>,
    A2CPM <a2@wilserv.com> wrote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO-LyfNBjfE&t=1423s

    It was an interesting interview, but only from a "founder's" perspective.
    In summary: they made enough money to pay the employees and for operations, but the founders didn't make much.

    That's the way it usually goes with small businesses that have employees.
    Been there, have the t-shirt.

    My memories of using Kyan Pascal are marred by the fact that they were utterly impossible to talk to. Support calls were never returned.

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