HP TSB internals

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Sat Aug 7 14:28:30 1999

> No Sellam, no one took the time to reverse engineer TSB....
>
> This manual is called 2000E IMS (Internals Maintenance Specification). It
> was written by HP, and I'm pretty certain it was used to train new
> programmers who were to work on the TSB code itself. It's just way too
> detailed (and most of it printed too nicely) to be someone just doing some
> reverse engineering.
>
> I'll probably get to scanning a few parts of it in next week.

But you said it was _hand written_? That sounds rather counter-productive.

...not that I'm complaining about the fact that you have it, of course. I'd
be fascinated to see it. Someone else said correctly that this kind of docu-
mentation was rare. It seems to me that's especially true about HP, which
is a shame since their stuff's so well-designed. I could be wrong about
that impression though.

Are you coming to the VCF? Or if not, I wonder if there will be any 2100
hardware there?

-- Derek
Received on Sat Aug 07 1999 - 14:28:30 BST