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From: pete@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Pete Cottrell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: Pyramid architecture/asm
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Date: 18 Dec 87 19:26:22 GMT
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	From: pyrnj!pyramid!randy@rutgers.edu  (Randy Clark)
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	>Where can I get information on Pyramid assembler and the architecture
	>of the 90x ??  Some of this information is probably proprietary.
	
	The information _is_ proprietary, and normally distributed only to
	customers with a source license.  Depending on how you want to use them,
	the books *may* be available if you sign a standard non-disclosure 
	agreement.

I've never understood this. Whatever happened to the basic right to write
assembler code or to look at what a compiler is generating and understand it?
Sort of comes in handy when you are debugging something with adb. Why should 
you need source for this? Or a non-disclosure agreement? If you're buying a
machine, then you deserve to know what its instruction set does (or *is*).
I just can't see this.

Just my opinion, but jeez.....