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From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: 2.0+ RKM's
Message-ID: <18161@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 27 Jan 91 22:19:12 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.034026.27876@cs.ucla.edu> <17987@cbmvax.commodore.com> <17994@cbmvax.commodore.com> <10511@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <10511@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>In article <17994@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>>	I just want to add to ken's statement that I feel that the current
>>1.3 RKM's (blue) are crucial even if you're doing 2.0 development.  I use them
>>often to look up things, and a programmer new to the Amiga must understand
>>the 1.3 system in order to understand 2.0 (which is 1.3 plus a bunch of new
>>stuff).

Indeed!

>
>True, the 1.3RKM's are written pretty well, but it may come as a major
>disappointment to folks creating there own asynchronous DOS functions under
>1.3 to discover that 2.0 has a mucho better handle on such things.
>
>Intuition programmers will be in for an even bigger shock.  The way in which
>intuition pogramming is done is under considerable (much needed) reconstruction
>a simple example:
>
 [ 1.3 & 2.0 example screen opens deleted ... ]

>	If such differences do not bother you, then buy the 1.3 RKMs.  If
>	you want to know the Amiga operating systems basics, or the exec
>	you'll want them as well -- but be aware of the differences.  I
>	can't wait to see what the device independent graphics library throws
>	our way... :) :)

The Blue RKMs are, as Randell stated, essential in learning to program
the Amiga. Whats more, I suspect that most anyone that is at the level
of doing asynchronous DOS functions knows where to get the latest docs
(2.0 autodocs). They are available to developers. 

The fact that the new 2.0 stuff offers some new and better
functionality certainly doesn't negate the need for the RKMs. They are
*the* source for Amiga programming info. Trying to do this without
them would be a mighty chore, indeed.

bj

>David Navas 

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