Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Is programming still allowed?
Message-ID: <1990Nov23.163407.21161@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8319@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 90 16:34:07 GMT

In article <8319@star.cs.vu.nl> sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren) writes:
>Is it reasonable to assume that if you buy computer hardware from a
>supplier that the information needed to program that hardware should be
>available to you?

Is it reasonable?  Yes.  Is it realistic?  Not any more.

Buy from MIPS.  They still seem to ship complete documentation.  Avoid
Sun in particular; they never have.
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"I'm not sure it's possible            | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
to explain how X works."               |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry