temple%UMass-ECE%csnet-relay@sri-unix.UUCP (12/14/83)
From: Matthew Temple <temple%UMass-ECE@csnet-relay> Columbia's documentation is meager indeed, although a friend who just bought a Compaq apparently got an even worse documentation set. Aside from the documentation for the bundled software library (which is standard), you get their "Guide to Operations," an MS-DOS manual, a CPM-86, and a manual for MACRO-86. The guide to operations is really poor. It does list the bios interrupt functions, but goes no further than an explanation of how to call them. As for the configuration of the ports, you get little info except the name of the hardware items. I wrote before, also, that the graphics board seems to disable the second serial port, but there is no explanation of how this is done or how it might be undone. Well, at least you get switch setting information. (Does any PC-Clone give you the kind of information available in the IBM technical reference manual?) Matthew Temple Smith College (413) 584-2700 ext. 2388