Greetings Anthony-you-god.

You are, as usual, correct.  One of the greatest losses in the fire a half
decade ago was my,,,

IBM Technical Reference Manual - A rust colored half size 2 ring with all
that good stuff in it.

How good we had it.

Indeed I am not particularly happy with NVIDIA,,,

The good news is I am blowing a 6.0 image right now.

Regards,

Flint


On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM Anthony Carrico <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 3/10/25 14:40, Paul Flint wrote:
> > I suspect the poor documentation is a cultural thing.
> >
> > I am used to the culture of the very developed Free and Open Source
> > Software (FOSS) available on the web. I recall that while the IBM PC was
> > not a closed source product even in its inception; that coupled with the
> > rise of the Internet, a bank switching processor from Intel, RMS and the
> > Torvalds kid all came together with a life changing vengeance for me.
>
> IIRC, IBM PC/AT/PS2 and bus card schematics were available in the little
> IBM three ring binders, even clone bus cards often shipped with
> schematics, and Intel was happy to ship you documentation for all the
> chips for free, ditto for Motorala, TI, ..., and then came along Nvidia
> and they ruined everything.
>
> --
> Anthony Carrico
>

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