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<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>>I'm impressed that you picked up 6502 assembly out of
an even larger <BR>>"vaccum" considering there was no 'net back then to help
at all. Did <BR>>you install a PBX on an Atari?
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No, I interfaced a Rockwell AIM to a 300 station
Philips electromechanical PABX (designed and built about 100 interface cards,
including DTMF receivers) and then wrote all the call processing code. The
Rockwell AIM did come with manuals that completely documented both the hardware
interface and the instruction set. In the days before the 'net, such
paperwork was mandatory.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>>it just requires diligence,
patience,
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>>It certainly helps to be Unix inclined,</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Unix was barely out of Bell Labs when I got my CS
degree and we never saw it, so I am at a disadvantage. I have worked a bit
with a couple of Unix installations since and do have a computer running Fedora
9 and one that is supposed to be running Fedora 10 64 bit if I can ever get past
a kernel bug, so I am trying to come up to speed. I am a lot more familiar
with what to do after the reset vector on an 80186, or the inner workings of a
protocol stack.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wilton</FONT></DIV>
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