Re: A86: very very odd

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: very very odd
From: Butler Family <butler2@erols.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 07:19:36 -0500
References: <000401bd3a7d$80b042c0$abc5ffd0@matt.buttlick.com> <34E79F8E.1892959A@polymail.calpoly.edu>
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Trent Lillehaugen wrote:

> > They are probably afraid if too much documentation is released, some
> > competitor might snatch it up and develop there own calcs. Its almost like
> > when IBM gave away their schematics for the 80x86 or whatever.  On one side
> > many programmers starting programming for the XT, on the other side the
> > engineers started developing clones of the XT
>
>     The first clones were made by reverse-engineering, not any released
> schematics.
>
> --
> Trent Lillehaugen
> Computer Engineering Major
> California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo
> <http://www.calpoly.edu/~tllilleh/a86/a86.html>
> <mailto:tllilleh@polymail.calpoly.edu>

  if somone wanted to make a calc it wouldn't be too hard if they knew how to put
the hardware together and how to program the RAM and ROM.  the zilog chip buyable
buy anyone so it would be 'easy' for someone who knew how to do it (not me)
since ti didnt even make a new chip for it and anyone with enough money and time
and know-how could build and program their own

Patrick

References:

Re: A86: very very odd

From: "Matt2000" <matt2000@gte.net>

Re: A86: very very odd

From: Trent Lillehaugen <tllilleh@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu>