Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!gtoal From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Toal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Application Notes (was Re: 32bit immediate load in ARM code) Message-ID: <10612@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 28 May 91 20:25:44 GMT References: <7313@acorn.co.uk> Distribution: comp Organization: Edinburgh University Lines: 22 In article <7313@acorn.co.uk> spayne@acorn.co.uk (Stuart Payne) writes: :Any application notes that Acorn has are available from SID. A large number :are available on good old paper if you write to or phone customer service, :and we always make a point of detailing these as they become available in :our Customer Services Hotline column in BAU. : :SID used to have an E-Mail link but unfortunately it clocked up some really :incredable bills, mailing its entire contents to Germany, Holland and :Scandinavia just as often as net bandwidth would allow. The powers that be :therefore decided to curtail its EMailing activities entirely. This is a :pity as I believe if we had restricted it to the UK there would not have :been this (Acorn) percieved problem. Please don't take my ramblings on this :as gospel, Alan can tell you more. Well, if you were to upload all the interesting stuff to apple.com's acorn archive, all the users in the above countries could fetch them directly with considerably less fuss than using sid's mailserver anyway. Also, for as long as Albert and Newcastle are willing, you could leave most of the docs on newcastle for UK academic users. Graham