From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Fri May 01 1998 - 03:12:14 EDT
Ron Heiby wrote:
>The idea that the information on the instruction set and registers of
>a released to production chip (that would allow someone to actually
>write software for said chip) is proprietary, is completely foreign to
>my experience and totally repugnant to me as a software developer.
Are SDKs for modern special-purpose multimedia chips really that widely available? I kind of thought this was common only for general-purpose chips.
I would guess that anyone who actually buys these chips can get a SDK for them.
- David
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