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From: grr@unirot.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: C and Assembler for non-developers
Message-ID: <229@unirot.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Dec-85 21:14:40 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  7 21:14:40 1985
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Summary: the price is not unreasonable

In article <643@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> strovink@afit-ab.ARPA writes:
>From: strovink@afit-ab.ARPA (Mark Strovink)
>Hey I'm sorry guys, but those of us who aren't developers
>can not get Lattice "C" or the 68000 Assembler from Commodore.
>I just called Commodore and the only part of the developers package
>available to non-developers are the technical manuals ($99.95).
>Well, all you developers out there, thanks for the fascinating glimpses at
>what might-have-been.  Keep up the torture,
>
Hey, the developers kit is not a bad deal for the price.  If you look at the
prices for Lattice C and MASM for the IBM PC, they list for $500 and $150 each,
PC documentation isn't cheap either.  You can get these things at a discount,
would still be more than $400.

I like cheap software too, but let's be reasonable.  Bob Pariseau (amiga!bobp)
recently posted the official policy regarding developers kits.  It stated that
the 'developers package' is available as a unit to any buyer directly from
Commodore, and that individual components would be available only thru dealers.

If you want to do serious Amiga things with the Amiga, at least the information
is available.  Compare this to other vendors who tried their best to keep the
internals of their software and hardware a deep trade secret.

Anybody want a slightly used TI99/4A (8-)?
-- 
George Robbins			uucp:	{unirot|tapa}!grr
P.O. Box 177
Lincoln U, PA  19352	[The ideas herein are not responsible to themselves!]