[rescue] Blades in the dark

[Ken Hansen]

Wasn't it based on an Intel-supplied reference design?

I thought I remembered that being the case, that was how they got
ramped up so fast...

Ken
(Who drove through Boca Raton (aka Rat's Mouth), where the group
"designed" that revolutionary machine)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: "Joshua D Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
Cc: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Blades in the dark


>   Yes, it was that bad.  The original design was FULL of stupid
> limitations that prove the designers never had any sort of growth in
> mind for the platform.  Witness the A20 barrier, the ridiculous
> I-can-only-boot-from-C:-or-A: stupidity, the unbelievably stupid
video
> subsystem design, etc.  And don't even get me started on the CGA in
> particular, with its big fuzzy nowhere-near-square pixels and
> video memory mapped right smack in the middle of the low address
> space.  *grumble*
>
>   It's a terrible design that should never have made it out of the
> playroom of the idiots who put it together.
>
>      -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire
> St. Petersburg, FL
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