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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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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