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From: rb@ccivax.UUCP (rex ballard)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: IBM Graphics Development Toolkit (VDI)
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 20:21:53 EST
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In article <911@dataioDataio.UUCP> bright@dataioDataio.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
>I have been working with the VDI stuff for a while now...

Just curious, is IBM's VDI even remotely compatible with GEM VDI?
I just got the GEM docs and it looks like GEM software written in
C is source compatible between IBM-PC, any clones that support GEM, and
the Atari.  This looks like a good way for a programmer to hit a lot
of markets with the same source.  Maybe exact IBM compatibility will
become less of an issue.

>I also hate documentation that is bound in such a way that no pages
>can be added. What do vendors expect you to do with the errata
>sheets (Turbo Pascal is an offender here)? Answer: lose them.

I guess I would rather buy a $19.95 paste-bound book and a $10.00 disk
full of software than pay $400 for the same product because the
publisher knows how easy it is to run the documentation through the
copier.  I've even bought the 'book' even though the software was
already available.  This sure beats "Copy Protection".
It would be nice if the "book" was priced separately, but it's also
nice to have the software, if I need it later.