From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 31 13:00:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA08169 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 13:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cronus.oanet.com (richmond@cronus.oanet.com [204.209.13.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA08127; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 12:59:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (richmond@localhost) by cronus.oanet.com (8.7.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA18304; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 13:59:01 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 13:59:00 -0600 (MDT) From: Raymond Richmond To: Nate Williams cc: Terry Lambert , sos@freebsd.org, durham@phaeton.artisoft.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Specs on a Hitachi CM2085me monitor anybody ?? In-Reply-To: <199608311803.MAA17618@rocky.mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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--------------------(_____)