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   Louis Ohland to Tomas Slavotinek   
   Re: All hail the Moravian Mystic! (T4 us   
   28 Dec 22 08:08:53   
   
   From: ohland@charter.net   
      
   So, what of this "rough POST"? The SCBs are documented to some level,   
   but this rough POST is NOT.   
      
   Tomas Slavotinek wrote:   
   > 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   
      
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