On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Jinx wrote:

> BTW, I'm not unsympathetic with Olin's view. To quote
> William F Buckley
>
> "Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs
>  become prohibitive"

Agreed.  There is a reason the individual hobbyist or small-time
consulting geek won't get a lot of support out of the manufacturer
directly.

As an aside, I can remember in the very early 80's asking Intel for a
particular data book -- I was a near-starving Army junior enlisted with an
oddball hobby, which lost out to the wife & kids when it came to spending
what very little we had.  Imagine my surprise when, a couple of days
later, came an express package with about ten pounds of manuals, gratis.
Heh - try that now.  I think I still have my old Intel Peripheral Design
Handbook.  The Web has been a true blessing, a few years ago it was almost
impossible to get free documentation out of many manufacturers.  Now that
they can make it available for free again things are much better.

Dale

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