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Article #6436Gratuitous flame about terminology (Re: Accessing the Chips directly)
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 1990 13:05
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 1990 13:05
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Dave Haynie, but it could have been anyone, wrote: > ...the A3000 got a different realtime clock... It's not a *realtime* clock. A realtime clock is something like the CIA timers. What the A3000 got is a new "time of day" clock. (I'm sorry, but this sort of thing ticks me off. Like the IBM-PC bozos claiming that their custom line-drawing character set is "ANSI graphics". The closest thing to ANSI graphics is the NAPLPS graphics primitive. Hell, the IBM character set isn't even compatible with the DEC vt100 character set, and the vt100 is the most common ANSI terminal in the world) -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Gratuitous flame about terminology (Re: Accessing the Chips directly) Message-ID: <7011@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 8 Nov 90 13:05:22 GMT References: <1220@iceman.jcu.oz> <15683@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 14