Re: why Target cannot change its mind

[Dimiter Popoff <tgi_earth@yahoo.com>]

>>Weng, the spec making process nowaday is largely a political one.  If
>>everything in a spec was easy, big companies would not be able to gain
>>an advantage over their competitors by requiring small companies to
>>jump through hoops to compete, and the big companies will not back the
>>spec.  The spec will then die.  It is wrong, but that is the way it is.
>
>This is a bunch of nonsense in my opinion.
>

It may not apply to Weng's posting directly, but it certainly is
no nonsense. You'll be astonished what a big deal of resources
big companies spend only to keep small guis - who
are by definition innovative in our branch - at bay. I don't know
if they do so just because of the purely economic danger or is
there also a higher - some might call it political - level of
anti-small line of behaviour (as Lenin has taught them... too bad
they were so quick to learn it not only in the East).
But you should just try to survive as a small manufacturer
of high-tech stuff to know this is no nonsense... Or do you
have other experience?

Back to the technical point.
Personally I think Weng is at no risk doing what he
describes. The initiator will ignore TRDY if it has not
asserted IRDY - unless it is time for master abort or
STOP has been asserted. His point (which was partly missed)
is that violating the spec as he wants to do is
guaranteed to have no effect by the very same spec. There may
be surprises none of us sees, of course, but then I prefer
to interprete the spec from a technical point of view rather than
from a religious one.

Dimiter

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