How to get technical information?

[Richard Smith]

ron minnich wrote:

> Best vendors we've seen on this list:
> micron. You ask for docs, you get Mbytes of pdf and other info. 
> AMD for the K8
> 
> Next best (i.e. you don't get 100 % but if you ask you might)
> Intel (they've been very good in the last year)

Intel is a hit and miss.  Like Ron says you just have to ask..  We 
looked at trying to use the 440MX chipset to replace our 44BX based 
board and was told that even though Bitworks already has an NDA in place 
with Arrow (Arrow is our Intel vendor) we were going to have to sigh a 
extra Double-dog secret NDA for 440MX info.  (The 'red' cover agreement 
rather than the 'yellow' cover agreemnet) and it was very doubtful that 
any of that stuff would be releaseable under GPL code.  So we had to 
bail and stick with the 440bx which has almost all the info available on 
the website.

-- 
Richard A. Smith
rsmith at bitworks.com