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- From: x90farleigh1@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Standards?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.191952.7079@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:19:52 EST
- Organization: Western Michigan University
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- A question that might not be appropriate here, but might have widespread
- interest; there is obviously hardware/software talent haunting these
- newsgroups, so here it goes ...
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- I was wondering about the general existence/usage of "standards" - for example
- published standards (like IEEE) and de-facto standards like the IDE bus...
-
- More specifically-
-
- 1. Has any of you purchased any of these standards? For example- the IEEE 802.3
- standard - I imagine it's expensive - If so how much?
-
- 2. Is there a generic service that offers a variety of these standards? Maybe
- at a cost that mere mortals can afford. I realize that university technical
- libraries sometimes have these, but they don't seem to have all the latest
- revisions, if they have the revs at all..
-
- 3. How do you get info on a de-facto like the IDE bus? Do you dig out the first
- IBM technical reference manual and reverse engineer the interface?
- Or do the drive vendors help out?
-
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- I personally think that these "standards" are not really all that standard
- since, in my opinion, the information seems to be guarded (I believe they are
- high priced, and are not readily available online somewhere, such as the RFC's
-
-
- Can anyone with experience on these statments please comment?
-
- Thanks -
- Fred Farleigh ... <no sig yet>
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