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Trammell Hudson

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

Like 12 Nov 2023 at 19:32 | Open on social.v.st

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Anisse

@th I'm guessing no one answered?

12 Nov 2023 at 19:38 | Open on social.treehouse.systems

Bjornsdottirs

@Aissen @th is this a roast

12 Nov 2023 at 20:01 | Open on mastodon.top

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.

12 Nov 2023 at 20:04 | Open on social.treehouse.systems

XANTRONIX Industrial

@th > having programmed 68k before

legends are certainly forged in the fires of the Sinclair QL

12 Nov 2023 at 19:44 | Open on xantronix.social

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?

12 Nov 2023 at 20:11 | Open on mastodon.online

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.

12 Nov 2023 at 22:09 | Open on mastodon.nu

hot metal oxide

@th It seems so polite...for him.

12 Nov 2023 at 20:48 | Open on malt.social

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.

12 Nov 2023 at 22:01 | Open on mastodon.nu

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