rabindranath72
Well-known member
Hi all,
I am a newbie to the forum, and (almost) newbie to Macintosh systems. I recently acquired a Macintosh SE/30 and a Macintosh Quadra 650, and I'd like to try my hand at software development. In particular, my idea was to port the old Minix OS to the Macintosh SE/30 (for starters) as a native OS, rather than an application running under System.
My stumbling block is documentation on hardware, like memory maps, registers definitions etc.
I found this technical note:
https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/#technotes/hw/hw_14.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS10002483
which refers to Macintosh SE/30 Developer Notes (part number M0061LL/A, which I haven't been able to find anywhere.
Some development notes can be found here:
http://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-68K_Desktop
Which I *think* has the same information as:
http://web.archive.org/web/19990424023012/http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/hardware/hardware2.html
but the former is not directly accessible, so if the contents are the same, there is no trace of specific documentation for the Mac SE/30 (and also the documentation on the Quadra 650 is scant at best.)
I have the Apple Guide to Macintosh Family hardware 2e, but it does not go too deep into details. Would the Designing Cards and Drivers be useful? I have seen the 2e quite cheap, but the price for the 3e is steep. Would the 2e be useful at least for SE/30?
Also, do any of the Inside Macintosh volumes deal with actual hardware of the SE/30 and Quadra 650? I know the first three volumes deal with the early Macintosh, but my understanding is that the architectures changed quite a bit.
Thanks in advance for any and all information you can provide,
Cheers,
Antonio
I am a newbie to the forum, and (almost) newbie to Macintosh systems. I recently acquired a Macintosh SE/30 and a Macintosh Quadra 650, and I'd like to try my hand at software development. In particular, my idea was to port the old Minix OS to the Macintosh SE/30 (for starters) as a native OS, rather than an application running under System.
My stumbling block is documentation on hardware, like memory maps, registers definitions etc.
I found this technical note:
https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/#technotes/hw/hw_14.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS10002483
which refers to Macintosh SE/30 Developer Notes (part number M0061LL/A, which I haven't been able to find anywhere.
Some development notes can be found here:
http://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-68K_Desktop
Which I *think* has the same information as:
http://web.archive.org/web/19990424023012/http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/hardware/hardware2.html
but the former is not directly accessible, so if the contents are the same, there is no trace of specific documentation for the Mac SE/30 (and also the documentation on the Quadra 650 is scant at best.)
I have the Apple Guide to Macintosh Family hardware 2e, but it does not go too deep into details. Would the Designing Cards and Drivers be useful? I have seen the 2e quite cheap, but the price for the 3e is steep. Would the 2e be useful at least for SE/30?
Also, do any of the Inside Macintosh volumes deal with actual hardware of the SE/30 and Quadra 650? I know the first three volumes deal with the early Macintosh, but my understanding is that the architectures changed quite a bit.
Thanks in advance for any and all information you can provide,
Cheers,
Antonio