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- From: wille@june.cs.washington.edu (Robert Wille)
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware Manual)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.225947.5840@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Keywords: hardware reference manual
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- Organization: University of Washington Computer Science
- References: <1992Nov12.000037.27562@wuecl.wustl.edu> <1992Nov13.221116.15921@ariel.ec.usf.edu> <1992Nov18.124549.12281@ifi.uio.no>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 22:59:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.124549.12281@ifi.uio.no>, stigo@ifi.uio.no (Stig Arne Olsen) writes:
- |>
- |> This problem can be solved very easily. In the U.S., where the coders
- |> want to run their c-coded spreadsheets in 24 bit color - relase NO
- |> hardware ref. In Europe, very there is still some fun involved in
- |> programming, release it!
- |>
- |> I do feel a bit sorry for the people trying to port Linux, however,
- |> but then again, C= is probably to proud of their Unix efforts so they
- |> won't make it easy for other people to make a freely distributable version.
- |>
- |> --
- |> | Stig A. Olsen | stigo@ifi.uio.no | "Ja til EF" |
- |> | Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat. |
-
- If you've been following the thread 'New hardware reference guide?' you
- would know that someone (I forgot who) from C= stated that people working
- on OS's would be able to hardware docs. Just because there isn't a
- hardware reference guide doesn't mean that documentation on the hardware
- doesn't exist. According to the previously mentioned article, people who
- have a *legitimate* reason (creating the best-ever demo doesn't qualify
- as a legitimate reason) for needing docs on the hardware will be able
- to get them. I don't know if the Linux group will be able to get
- documentation or not, but I hope so and it isn't too unreasonable that
- they will.
-
- --
- Robert
-
- There is evidence that the brain is like a computer. If that's true,
- then there really aren't any stupid people. Just people running DOS.
-