References used during the development of the Laboratory Companions

Non SDS resource material

The following material I found useful in providing background knowledge on RISC and CISC processors in general, and the PowerPC and 68K processors in particular.

 


SDS resource material

SDS Version 6.5 Demo Kit

I found the following 68K books from SDS very useful. They are directed towards using the SDS tools from a DOS window, i.e. for a SDS toolkit earlier than Version 6.5. I paid $95 US in total for the three books.

I was making very little leeway with the PowerPC until I was able to find out more about the possible assembler directives and command line options for the DIAB DATA tools. Even then, a lot of trial and error was needed to work within the capabilities of the demo kit. The book was purchased directly from SDS at around $100 US.

 

SDS Version 7.X Demo Kit

I expect to be making considerable use of the new SDS 68K books directed towards using the graphics interface of their new Version 7.X releases. Again, there is no information about the limitations of the SDS demo kits. The books were $100 each (educational price) from SDS.

 


New Resource Material -- SDS tutorial information

During the time that the "Laboratory Companion" was developed, SDS have come out with an electronic version of their tutorial. There are versions as follows

I have not included these with the Companion as the fine print says

The main problem with the tutorial is that it is designed for the full SDS kit and only explains about working with the tutorials on their release diskette. There is no indication of what do with the demo kits.

I would suggest you print a copy out. The information in the 27 pages goes both further and not as far as the material I have included in the Companion.

WordPerfect 6.0 Users

I was unable to read either the Word 6.0 or RTF versions with WordPerfect 6.0 under Windows 3.1.1 or Windows 95, the conversion just did not take. I was able to convert the Word 6.0 version into RTF, and then read that RTF file into WordPerfect 6.0 running under Windows 95 using a copy of MicroSoft Works 4.0. However, printing out the resulting file resulted in a booklet that was useful not perfect, with a number of the "figures" becoming vanishing small.



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