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Edward E. Jaffe wrote:
> 
> Bill Lynch (wblynch@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
> : driker2 wrote:
> : >
> : (snippage)
> : > It looks like disasm I wrote and modified for naspa/ CBT tape in 1985.
> 
> : I'd bet my own money that you're right. I've heard that it is the
> : disassembler from the CBT tape, packaged & documented as an IBM product.
> 
> This is a rather serious charge and should not be made lightly.  Where did
> this rumor get started?  Is there any real evidence to support the claim
> that IBM plagiarized this product?
> 
I searched DejaNews and found the following post from Andy Wood:

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"Subject:      Re: Reverse engineer a LOAD module
From:         agwood@ibm.net (Andy Wood)
Date:         1998/03/21
Message-ID:   <35141ea3.2343594@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>
Newsgroups:   bit.listserv.ibm-main

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Alan Field <alan.field@SUPERVALU.COM> wrote:

>The HIGH LEVEL ASSEMBLER toolkit also contains a disassember which works
>pretty much like the one on the CBT tape.
>
>Alan

Kind of interesting just how similar the IBM disassembler is to the
CBT one. Even down to the comments produced for SVCs, which in some
cases are a bit inaccurate or dated.


Andy Wood
agwood@ibm.net

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Perhaps I stated things too strongly when I said I thought IBM's
disasembler was the NaSPA product. As I said before, sorry for any
confusion on this, I wasn't implying that anything had been plagiarized.

Bill Lynch

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