More on SoftIce, from one of its parents
Frank Grossman, one of the original authors of SoftIce and owners of NuMega sent this around to some of us old-time NuMega folks. I figured some of my readers might get a kick out of it. It's filled with inside references which I won't try to describe, although some might be guessable.
Subject: RE: R.I.P. SoftICE
And only about 6 months from his 20th birthday.
But we should remember the good times.
He was born with a fairly short and energetic labor. Born back in the simple days of a 386s chip with 512K memory. He was a very skinny baby, fitting on a 360K floppy, and a little shy always hiding away in the upper part of memory where no one could find him. Although shy he started to getting around quickly. Moving from DOS to Win 3.0 then a big date in ‘Chicago’. His popularity grew to the point that even songs where written about him, ‘The Soft-ICE blues’. And finally showing up in a ‘New Technology’ where no one thought he could live. He was fickle at times, dating a lot of different symbol engines along the way and picking up friends wearing strange ‘Underware’. He became a little confused as he left the nest; trying to be hip, doing the 64bit thing and was even seen cross dressing in a GUI.
But as his parents;
SI = ‘JM’
DI = ‘FG’
We will always be proud of him and what he accomplished for the world, in a time when the OS changed every 2 years and drivers were a combination of science and art.
We would like to thank all those who helped him along during his life!
In his memory we ask that you always keep CTRL-D unassigned on your keyboard.
Frank & Jim
Comments
Anonymous
April 11, 2006
I certainly remember that tool very well. Why have they pulled the plug on it now?Anonymous
April 11, 2006
> in a time when the OS changed every 2 years and drivers were a combination of science and art.
Is he talking about year 2006 or year 3006?Anonymous
April 12, 2006
A brilliant eulogy!Anonymous
April 12, 2006
... and is the functionality in any other product? MS debuggers?Anonymous
April 12, 2006
SoftICE was beyond Compuware's comprehension, surprised it took them this long to retire it. I will miss it.Anonymous
April 12, 2006
They fear what they don't understand (corporate that is...).
A fond farewell is bid.Anonymous
April 12, 2006
I saw the anouncement on April 1, so I thought... I mean, I couldn't find the news anywhere else. NOW how do I slip on ring 0?Anonymous
April 14, 2006
It's really sad that such a tool won't be updated anymore...
Makes me wanna stick with XP forever...
Well, all the good things must come to an end =(Anonymous
April 17, 2006
SoftICE is a great program...
Hope to see its rebirth in nearest future!Anonymous
April 19, 2006
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April 20, 2006
A sad day for Windows kernel developers.Anonymous
April 20, 2006
That is a SAD day for me. I have been using Soft-Ice since 1991. What a shame. A very sad day indeed.
R.I.P SoftIce.Anonymous
April 20, 2006
we will miss you :*(Anonymous
April 23, 2006
Very sad day indeed Itai. What would happen to you and others without being able to access Ctrl-D ?
A tool that has state of the art technology and right on the edge of it. It is a shame to see it goes and such a value is being wasted.
SI will definitely be missed !!Anonymous
April 24, 2006
Just because big Corp. doesn't want him to live in his house it doesn't mean he should die in the cold.
He can go to the promise land. A place where others like him thrive and live in harmony doing good for the sake of good itself and not because of the profit. A place where software is free and open and where the source gets enriched every day.
I sure will love the opportunity to help him keep growing.
Any chance of that happening?Anonymous
April 26, 2006
our thanks and obligatory RIP salutations go of course to Frank Grossman & Jim Moskun (and Dom & gerald and the others)... but Softice won't die so easily as some here seem to fear, if -as I suppose- those that created it are still masters of themselves :-)
There'are indeed places -for code- beyond the eyes of sight and the ears of sound.
And we may and can and probably will all be there by tomorrow's breeze, hehe.Anonymous
May 01, 2006
is there a way to get it open source ?Anonymous
May 10, 2006
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May 27, 2008
Frank Grossman, one of the original authors of SoftIce and owners of NuMega sent this around to some of us old-time NuMega folks. I figured some of my readers might get a kick out of it. It's filled with inside references which I won't try to describeAnonymous
June 16, 2009
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