On Sun, 11 May 1997, Paul Antoine wrote:
> This kind of information is fine, but doesn't tell you how to talk to the
> chips, for instance, just where they are. Common chips like the LANCE
> ethernet chip are fine anyway - we do just need to know where it is in the
> address map - however talking to the Personal DECStation's Access.Bus keyboard
*nods* Right, that was kind of what I meant. But a lot of these guys have the
same(ish) hardware, just different offsets for functions. It's better than
nothing. And besides, using the same trick, it's certainly possible
(depending on how dedicated a person is) to reverse engineer the use of those
other devices as well.
> and mouse interface is another thing entirely... let alone the special ASIC's
> used in some models (many functions of which are obvious, fortunately!).
>
> If someone would tar up the Ultrix header files, I'd appreciate it... I
> forgot to do this prior to erasing my Ultrix partition. :-)
>
*gasp*
But Paul, isn't that a violation of the licensing agreement?
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