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Trammell Hudson

I hope that young man found some good hardware programming reference books. shiftleft.com/mirrors/utzoo-us

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Anisse

@ellenor2000 @th not intended as such ! That's just what I understood from @th 's message, and supposed from newsgroup's audience at the time.

xan

@th > having programmed 68k before

legends are certainly forged in the fires of the Sinclair QL

RealGene ☣️

@th
I had Rector & Alexys' The 8086 Book (1980), Peter Norton's Inside the IBM PC (1986), and an Intel databook that was as thick as a phone book and printed on what appeared to be thin newsprint and had every 808x peripheral chip they made (8254 timer, 8259 PIC, etc.).

The manual that came with my dads' IBM-PC had the BIOS listing printed in the back.

Did this Linus character live in a cave?

Magnus Ahltorp

@RealGene @th I don’t if the PIC and others were mentioned in Ralf Brown's Interrupt List yet in 1991, but that was also a great resource.

Magnus Ahltorp

@th The way I solved it was by requesting the 8529 data sheet from my local electronics dealer. They sent it to me in the mail, free of charge.

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