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- From: stigo@ifi.uio.no (Stig Arne Olsen)
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware Manual)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.154759.12082@ifi.uio.no>
- Keywords: hardware reference manual
- Sender: stigo@ifi.uio.no (Stig Arne Olsen)
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
- References: <1992Nov12.000037.27562@wuecl.wustl.edu> <1992Nov13.221116.15921@ariel.ec.usf.edu> <1992Nov18.124549.12281@ifi.uio.no> <1992Nov18.225947.5840@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:47:59 GMT
- Lines: 38
- Originator: stigo@sognsvann.ifi.uio.no
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- In article <1992Nov18.225947.5840@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, wille@june.cs.washington.edu (Robert Wille) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov18.124549.12281@ifi.uio.no>, stigo@ifi.uio.no (Stig Arne Olsen) writes:
- > |> [my stuff]
- > 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
-
- Well, so they think it's better that SOME get the hardware ref., but not
- all? That SUCKS!
-
- > hardware reference guide doesn't mean that documentation on the hardware
- > doesn't exist. According to the previously mentioned article, people who
-
- I never said that the documentation did not exist, the whole discussion
- here is whether it should be made available to the public or not.
- I imagine it's pretty hard to design new chips without documenting how
- they work :-)
-
- > 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.
-
- I doubt it. Linux is not a commercial product, so it wouldn't surprise me
- a bit if C= wouldn't release it to them. I also remember one time that
- someone wanted to include some CLI-commands in their public-domain work,
- this was something _everybody_ already had, and would only make it more
- easy to install the utility (forgive me for not remembering the exact
- program),but Commodore refused. I have no reason to think they have
- become more easy to deal with now.
- > --
- > Robert
- --
- | Stig A. Olsen | stigo@ifi.uio.no | "Ja til EF" |
- | Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat. |
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