PC/Apple/etc. Cards Worth Keeping/Storing

[Jim Leonard]

Tony Duell wrote:
> There was no separate TechRef for the CGA card. The hardware is covered 
> in the normal Options and Adapters Techref. 

...which I don't have :)  Oh well, hopefully there's electronic copy somewhere.

> It's supported by the 
> standard mainboard BIOS, the source lising of which is in the 
> machine-specific techrefs.

I don't have that either, but I've disassembled my own BIOS and found that it 
is nearly useless to me -- for example, there are instructions that take longer 
to execute out of RAM (4 cycles per byte opcode) than ROM (2 cycles) -- so it's 
not so much of "let's optimize what the BIOS code can do" but rather "I need to 
come up with a completely different way of doing this".

Which is what I expect a lot of people were doing in the '60s and '70s ;-)
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