Subject: Re: hardware docs URLs wanted
To: Christopher R. Bowman <crb@ChrisBowman.com>
From: Brad Salai <bsalai@servtech.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/19/1998 18:16:02
At 3:27 AM -0500 1/19/98, Christopher R. Bowman wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, David Brownlee wrote:
>
>> We are trying to build up a library of URLs for technical
>> documentation on any of the busses, chips, machines, or
>> other hardware on which NetBSD runs (or could run :).
>>
>> If you can help with such URLs, please send them into myself
>> <abs@netbsd.org> or the generic <www@netbsd.org> address.
>>
>> The current (embryonic) list is at:
>>
>> http://www.netbsd.org/Library/Hardware/index.html
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>> David/absolute
>>
>> .:. "I'm not an angel... I'm not that quaint..." .:.
>
>I think that this is a great idea, but I would suggest even better would
>be to find server space some where, and actually copy the files to there
>and make your URL point to the copies. Some times maufacturers change
>their mind about puttting out documentation. TI did just recently with
>their permedia 2 chip. As a precedent see the Dec documentation page/list
>at ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/dec-docs/index.html
>
>
>---------
>Christopher R. Bowman
>crb@ChrisBowman.com
>My home page
Not to be a wet blanket, but there could be a few copyright problems with this.
Brad
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