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Re: legOS
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:40:22 GMT
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Dave Taira <bodhi@foad{nomorespam}.org>
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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Kekoa Proudfoot wrote:
> > Does anyone use legOS? I read that there are possible risks to
> > getting other ROM images. What are the risks?
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> Not that I'm supplying you with an answer, but it seems to
> me that it's your RCX, why can't you do what you like with the
> hardware now that you've bought it,
I think he meants risks as in "I installed LegOS, and it got wedged, and
I can't reinstall the official Lego stuff, so now I've got a very very
expensive lego brick that does nothing".
It seems to me that Lego's position would logically be "If you install
anything that we don't sell, you're on your own".
As a side note: what happened to the Reply-To header? IMHO, replies should
go back to the list by default.
Dave Taira | Broken pipes, broken tools, people bending broken rules / |
Hired Gun | Hound dog howlin', bullfrog croakin' / Everything is broken |
bodhi@foad.org | --Bob Dylan, "Everything is Broken" |
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Such risks are unknown. You have to trust, in the case of LegOS, that Markus did a reasonable job. He in turn probably has some amount of trust that I did a reasonable job, at least with regards to some aspects. If you're not sure about (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: legOS
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| (...) Did you get a ROM image? Did you disassemble the firmware? Even if you did, is there anything to forbid you from using that information to write new firmware? Not that I'm supplying you with an answer, but it seems to me that it's your RCX, (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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