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- From: eeklund@nyx.cs.du.edu (Eivind Eklund)
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.152955.7255@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 15:29:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.202005.13562@sth.frontec.se> bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg) writes:
- >eeklund@nyx.cs.du.edu (Eivind Eklund) writes:
- >> The problem is that I want my code to run on older machines too. SO - I
- >> need some doc on how to find out wether the machine is running the older
- >> chipset etc...
- >
- >You don't really mean you want hard core hardware specs just to CHECK for
- >the hardware, do you?
- >There are (OS) routines for checking things like that. Please surprise me
- >with a reason why these routines wouldn't be good enough.
-
- Because we are not told about them. I want info about them NOW - not at
- some indeterminate time in the future - ie when CBM release the new
- RKMs... This is something we NEED to be compatible, come on CBM, don't
- make all my programs crash until your docs are released (I can't afford to
- register as a developer - $400 is too much for my wallet at the moment)
-
- Eivind Eklund AKA Vishnu CRB
- eeklund@nyx.cs.du.edu or phone +47-(0)-9-944946 (BBS, shout to get ME)
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