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Re: Interview with Kyan Pascal creator

From	Jerry Penner <jerry+a2@jpen.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.apple2.programmer
Subject	Re: Interview with Kyan Pascal creator
Date	2023-07-06 12:58 -0600
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<yub7crcsw7p.fsf@jpen.ca> (permalink)
References	<4a8cbe00-b4a5-4506-849a-d5d1ee84291fn@googlegroups.com> <u86vg6$10im2$1@dont-email.me>

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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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