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From: frankjr@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Frank AnthonyJr Busalacchi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Developers?
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.192338.8632@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 26 Nov 90 19:23:38 GMT
References: <2766@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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mndaily@ux.acs.umn.edu (Linda Seebach) writes:

>Every so often, someone around here refers to becoming an officially
>registered devloper. I had a couple of questions about this:

>1] Registered with what/whom?

>2] What do you get for being registered?

>3] What do you have to give to be registered?

>4] What is the overall point? Is this something that makes random hacking
>  more "legitimate"? Does it earn money? Does it give you access to some
>  otherwise secret sources of information about the computer? Will it
>  enhance your sex drive? (etc...)

1.  Registered with Commodore Amiga Technical Support (CATS)

2.  Registered users are sent AmigaMail, a technical mailing that comes
    every two months.  It has lots of examples, and discussion about the
    computer and how to program it.  It discusses areas such as intuition
    disk drive i/o, exec, graphics, sound.  It is a great resource.  They
    also are eligible for Developer prices (about the same as educational),
    and receive access to a special forum on BIX I think.  They receive
    information and invitations to developer conferences...

3.  There are two levels of developer status.  One is for proven companies,
    and the other is for unproven developers.  I don't remember the cost
    for the proven developer, but I think that the unproven developer cost
    is about $85 per year.

4.  The overall point is that you are informed of new changes to the system,
    and receive information before it becomes publically known (obviously you
    have to sign a non-disclosure form).  As for enhancing your sex drive,
    it hasn't done a thing for mine...

If you look in the front of RKM: includes and autodocs, (copyright page I
think) there is information on how to receive more information on becomming
a registered developer.

Hope this has been informative.

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Frank Busalacchi Jr
Undergrad Stanford University
Computer Science Department
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