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From: gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Still searching...
Keywords: ste, help
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Date: 6 Dec 89 03:12:50 GMT
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In article <874@lzaz.ATT.COM> bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (Buce Szablak) writes:

>(Someone posted the suggestion that Atari follow Next's example when they
>introduce the TT, and package GCC and utilities with each machine; that would
>be a SMART move. I won't hold my breath...)

Actually, it seems kind of silly to me. MOST ST's don't have the memory
or disk needed to run GCC, and MOST ST buyers don't know C. NeXT puts
GCC with their machine because it's a workstation.

Can you only imagine the confusion of buyers who receive 10 disks of
software, with no instructions, that they have no idea how to use, and
that they probably don't have the resources to run?

Now what Atari ought to do is make sure we PD developers can purchase
reasonably-priced documentation somewhere. I don't need phone support,
but I sure could use docs. The ST docs eventually became available from
3rd party sources, but I'd like to see STe and TT docs before 1991...

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Greg Lindahl