Hi,
> On Jul 24, 2018, at 6:40 AM, Eric Auer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi :-) Glad that we are inspiring you, Jerome ;-)
I don’t really have the time to do it. Arghhhh!!
:-)
>
> But I disagree about spending 35 for a book - you
> can find plenty of information on the web, because
> that topic was really popular in the early days of
> the web. https://hornet.org/ for example gathered
> gigabytes of software and information in the 1990s
> and luckily they came back as static archive, e.g.:
> https://hornet.org/code/hardware/video/
>
> https://hornet.org/code/library/
>
> https://hornet.org/code/tutors/video/ <https://hornet.org/code/tutors/video/>
I haven’t been to that site. But, I don’t exactly disagree.
To me, It just always seems that when I’m looking for that
really old tech info that pre-dates the popular internet, I end
up combing through dozens and dozens of pages. Gather
a little info here, some wrong info there, a little more over in
some other place. Eventually, you will get the information
you need.
Just saying, a good book can be a single point of
information on a topic from start to finish.
For example, I have a 286, 386 & 486 book I bought
decades ago. It covers absolutely every aspect of those
CPU’s. The book is formatted in a logical and concise manner.
From Assembly & Machine Language, it covers everything
all the way down. If I had the brains, money and other
resources, I could use it to build a 486 processor from scratch.
For some, it is easier to learn something by just following along
in a book.
Just saying…
Jerome
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