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RE: PC Card Specification 2.01 - (off topic)



>That's completely pathetic.  All standards should be free.

What exactly are you trying to do? It is quite possible to design a PCMCIA 
system (hardware and software) without the official specification 
documents; there is a lot of information implicitly buried in chip 
datasheets and other sources.

BTW, if you are working with any but a controlled set of PCMCIA devices, I 
suggest that eCos might not be the correct OS for this application; it's 
easier to ride the free (and ongoingly-updated) PCMCIA support in Linux. 
This comment does not apply if you intend only to support generic devices 
like modems and PCMCIA-ATA storage devices, or if you intend to support 
only one or two specific cards for which you will write drivers.


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