Re: linux [was: Is hex an ascii thing?]


idle replied:

We both know a lot of how to communicate with standard hardware,
so why do we need libs or other weird hw-drivers?

maybe they were worried that things would turn out like the amiga..
commodore wrote libraries too. but all the "real" coders ignored that
junk and wrote direct to hardware. Of course, it was easier then
because you knew what video chip everybody was going to have and you
knew what sound chip everybody was going to have.

The problem isn't the length of the manufactures list and also not
the missing harware standards (like VGA once had), the main problem
is that manufacturers only support us with windoze-drivers and on
rare occasions with a few 'how to use it under windoze' C-examples.

I'd like to have full hw-documentation, not neccessarily whole
verbose/expensive PDF books, just RBIL-styled would do it.

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wolfgang





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