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Subject: Re: [9fans] missing compilers?
From: David Gordon Hogan <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Mon,  5 Aug 2002 00:26:29 -0400
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> I'm told that in
> the past Apple operated on the same principle as NeXt: that details of
> the hardware such as ROM contents could be changed on a whim since the
> company could then just tweak the OS to match.  Thus the hardware was
> effectively undocumented, or at least underdocumented, from the point
> of view of someone writing code for the bare hardware.

As I recall, the Mac Plus was pretty well-documented, but after
that, good hardware documentation became increasingly sparse.

The (``humble'') PC, on the other hand...