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- From: rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware Manual)
- Message-ID: <4TD7VB1w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 03:38:02 EST
- References: <Jesse_Michael.02qy@matrix.rain.com>
- Reply-To: rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy)
- Organization: Lakes Public Access
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- Jesse_Michael@matrix.rain.com (Jesse Michael) writes:
-
- > I think they should release hardware references in the future, *but* they
- > must provide a good example of how to *really* use the hardware. Not like
- > the examples in the old hardware reference manuals. (e.g. absolute
- > addressing)
-
- In addition, C= might add a few things to the OS to allow reliable
- determination of current hardware, etc. This, of course, would require a
- little cooperation from the producers of third party hardware, but it
- would not seem much more involved than the IFF registrations. Code
- taking control of the machine should, as a courtesy, pop up a warning
- requester, etc. And and library call which would preserve the machine
- status/restore machine status would make things much more flexable.
- Memory could be allocated properly, the shutdown library call made, the
- hardware could could, if well behaved, play with whatever it liked, then
- call the restore os function and restore the machine...
-
- Just some thoughts.
-