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From: rhialto@cs.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert)
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Subject: Re: MFM/IBM Decode
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Date: 7 Dec 90 16:21:12 GMT
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In article <49724@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v089pfrb@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>       3) Amiga Disk Drives Inside & Out (Abacus) seems to use many
>absolute addresses in its programming examples, why?

Because they are stupid. Don't buy their books.

Many of them are translations from German books from the publisher Data
Becker, and those books have a reputation of containing more incorrect
than correct information.  Unfortunately, unless you already have a lot
of knowledge about the subject, you cannot tell what is correct and
what isn't. But in their C64 intern book (yes I know it is old) that I
have, I had to make lots of corrections.

>  Jeff M.

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Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert                               rhialto@cs.kun.nl
How can you be so stupid if you're identical to me? -Robert Silverberg