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From: dlou@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Hardware Reference
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Date: 2 Apr 91 09:35:51 GMT
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What do you hardware types out there use for reference?

My room mate's Commodore supplied Amiga Hardware Reference Manual is
a joke (it's the old white one).  I opened it expecting to find
pinouts, bus timing specs, interface details, etc.  Instead, I find
such oddities as chapter 8 where 8.1 tells you that the chapter
deals with the game connector, RAM expansion, video interface,
serial interface, parallel interface, etc.  Instead, the game
connector section gives 1 lousy chart with obscure names of pins
with no explanation of what does what.  The video interface section
told you where the connectors were, the parallel port section was 3
sentences long, and the RAM expansion section was completely
non-existent!

I'm used to the IBM's PC Tech Ref where it told you EVERYTHING, even
stuff you'd never ever use, and had schematics for EVERYTHING to
boot!

-- 
Dennis Lou             |
dlou@ucsd.edu          | "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?"
[backbone]!ucsd!dlou   | "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!"