Andrew “bunnie” Huang (maker of the Novena) wrote an interesting article about the slowing of Moore's Law opening the door for small businesses and free hardware.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/the-death-of-moores-law-will-spur-innovation
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"Indeed, into the 1980s, computers often came with schematic diagrams of their circuit boards. The Apple II, for example, shipped with a reference manual that included a full schematic of the computer’s main board... Modern user manuals lack such depth. The most complex diagram in a recent Mac Pro user manual instructs the purchaser on how to sit at the computer"
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Too true, I still fondly remember the manual for my Comodore 128. Man, you could choke a hippo with that thing. But then it explained the c-64 mode, c-128 mode, The CP/M mode, had full schematics, opcode tables for both the 6502 and the z80, etc. You never felt lost with that near by.
Freemor at 2015-04-01T21:21:37Z
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