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   Message 41,071 of 42,985   
   Tomas Slavotinek to Louis Ohland   
   Re: All hail the Moravian Mystic! (T4 us   
   28 Dec 22 14:49:04   
   
   From: slavotinek@gmail.com   
      
   On 27.12.2022 13:29, Louis Ohland wrote:   
   > I was innocently minding my own business a day or so ago, and MAJ Tom   
   > had to tell me that there is a "rough POST" for a few IBM adapters.   
   >   
   > I immediately started to gather kindling and Kerosene to burn him at the   
   > stake for such blasphemy against the revealed will of God, e.g. the   
   > normular weg of POSID.   
   >   
   > While reaching for the book of God's Will Revealed, I couldn't prove him   
   > wrong. Further readings in the Holy Writ on OS/2 control exposed a   
   > blatant relation between SCSI and SCB, this heretical tome didn't   
   > document use by the complex of SCB during boot, but it didn't damn   
   > heretics to burn... Lazy IBM tech writers...   
   >   
   > Further meditation on some of the many facets of God's Will revealed,   
   > hinted at a linkin park between the enhanced BIOS on T1/T2, the 44/45   
   > pair, and SCB support/use...   
   >   
   > "Rough", "Czech", "Video"   
      
   Conceptually, SCB isn't tied to any particular subsystem. Though, SCSI   
   was very likely the primary motivation for its creation.   
      
   But it's not a secret that the two are related. The IBM SCSI Adapter   
   techref covers SCB rather extensively:   
   https://www.ardent-tool.com/docs/pdf/SCSI-A_Technical_Reference.pdf   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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