Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/06/29/00:32:44
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:43:10 +0100, Richard Dawe
<rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> sat on a tribble, which squeaked:
>Hello!
>
>Graaagh the Mighty wrote:
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>> >It's all in the Intel manuals; please read them.
>>
>> Or what? You'll flame me? I sure *hope* that participating on this
>> newsgroup without being ostracized, flamed, laughed at, or otherwise
>> looked down upon doesn't demand one buy copies of big expensive
>> manuals whose contents you got the optimizing compiler to avoid having
>> to worry about. In fact, I'll seriously consider leaving if it becomes
>> apparent that participants are expected to have copies of any kind of
>> non-free reference material whatsoever.
>
>Dude, calm down! Eli was just pointing you in the right direction to
>answer you question.
Okay, I'll grant that. It looked suspiciously like a command, rather
than a suggestion, the way it was worded. That tends to get me Irish
up, especially when it also seems dismissive of the "You shouldn't
have asked that here" variety (despite being topical and not in the
FAQ) and there's no reason to suspect the manuals in question cost
less than an arm and a leg at that point. :-)
>Besides, last time I looked the Intel processor manuals were a free
>download from Intels website.
Apparently. Some amount of confusion would have been saved by Eli
posting something a bit more akin to:
"Not sure anyone here can sum it up in just a few words, but all of
the gory details are in the reference manuals at http://foo, though
I'm not sure you'll want to slog through all of those."
--
Bill Gates: "No computer will ever need more than 640K of RAM." -- 1980
"There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of." -- 1980
"This antitrust thing will blow over." -- 1998
Combine neo, an underscore, and one thousand sixty-one to make my hotmail addy.
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