#: 14817 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    06-Apr-92  06:46:31
Sb: #14812-MM/1 Tech Manual
Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
To: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166 (X)

Glen,

 >Specifically, I would like some information on getting at the
 >guts of the VSC chip - how to program it, how to use the pixel
 >accelerator functions, etc.  All the (oops) "tech manual" tells
 >us is that there is a chip called the VSC and that it controls
 >the video output.

If you care to call the numbers I give, or write to the addresses, you'll get
SEVERAL BOOKS on just the VSC.  Yes, all the information on the VSC covers
three different books.  And I mean books of over 100 pages each. It was not
that Signetics didn't allow IMS to reprint them, it was just too much to be
included in the tech manual.  If I had re-written all of that or just
re-printed it and included it in the manual, it would have driven the price up
to well over $100.  Would you think that was a bargan?

What I did give was some specifics on the different devices where they apply to
the MM/1.  If you could have figured all this out on your own then you wouldn't
have needed the tech manual.  As it is, with the tech manual and the
manufacturer docs, you have all you need to "cheat" when you didn't have that
before.  If you think the price should be lower, then talk to Paul Ward.  If
you want to complain about the contents some more, then I'm the one to talk
with.

Mark