Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 13:59:00 -0600 (MDT) From: Raymond Richmond <richmond@cronus.oanet.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, sos@freebsd.org, durham@phaeton.artisoft.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Specs on a Hitachi CM2085me monitor anybody ?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960831135623.18083A-100000@cronus.oanet.com> In-Reply-To: <199608311803.MAA17618@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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I heartily agree, being an EE I have on many situations shown CS people many a thing about coding and development. In fact my scholastic career included more software and development courses than a mainstream CS, plus hardware. On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > [ Terry hit my hot button here ] > > > > Hmm, I'm afraid there is no easy way out here. You can get a pointer > > > to the "standard" mode table (thats what syscons does), but setting > > > the card specific modes is (surprice) card specific.. > > > > The data about the card is simply not well abstracted from the code > > that implements the INT 10 interface. > > > > And once again we discover why EE's should not be hired to write > > video BIOS. > > > Cheap generalization. I'll take on 95% of the CS grads. who graduated > in 94 in a usability/readability contest. Most EE's I'm awae of who > program are pretty decent nowadays, and most CS types who graduates a > few years back are just as bad as the EE's. :) > > > Proud Electrical Engineer, > > > Nate - You can't spell Geek w/out two E's. :) > -- __^__ __^__ ( ___ )------------------------------------------------------( ___ ) | / |---Raymond Richmond---Question Man-------(403)430-0811 -| \ | | / |---------OA Internet----------Technical Support---------| \ | |_*_| |_*_| (_____)----------------richmond@oanet.com--------------------(_____)
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