22 Oct
1998
22 Oct
'98
10:56 a.m.
At 04:14 PM 10/21/98 -0700, Chuck McManis wrote:
Another example, the RM-80 docs I've got, everything you need to talk to
the drive at a register level! Documentation for a 3DFx based Voodoo
Graphics card? "I'm sorry Mr. McManis but that information is only
available under NDA to qualified customers who can prove a market of at
least 1K units/month." Talk about self defeating!
Now if I were James Burke I would have ended up back at college grads,
oh well.
But you did, and didn't realize it! The person working tech support
was a college grad! :-)
I entered UW-Madison in 1981. Both the EE and CS tracks had courses
where you learned how PDP-ish computers worked from the flip-flops
on up, and you did some assembler programming. Some courses required
a knowledge of C, but there weren't any actual courses that *taught* C.
You had to pick it up via K&R, or through the volunteer efforts of
friendly teaching assistants who held night classes.
- John