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 >
