> .. I was absolutely blown away by the level of documentation Commodore > included with the C64, including the pinout of that chip, how to interface > with it, everything I needed was right there in the User manual. > > -Adam
Way back when, when the 1st IBM PCs roamed the earth, they had a full set of manuals available for them. You had to buy them, but they were complete. The 'Hardware Technical Reference Manual' had schematics of both the motherboard, and the common set of IBM made plug-in cards. It also contained the source code (x86 assembly) for BIOS chip. This in itself makes Robert Cringley's (Triumph of the Nerds) story of 'reverse engineering', a pile of cow #2. All clone makers had to do was hire a 3rd party read this manual, and write a spec from it. Hence, the clones were born. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
