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From: elg@usl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Words for The Wise!
Message-ID: <814@usl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Jul-86 19:32:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: usl.814
Posted: Wed Jul 16 19:32:54 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jul-86 06:58:26 EDT
References: <1378@garfield.UUCP>
Reply-To: elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green)
Organization: USL, Lafayette, LA
Lines: 33
Keywords: BASIC, tech info
Summary: children shouldn't play with matches

In article <1378@garfield.UUCP> joseph@garfield.UUCP (Joseph Dawson) writes:
>I bought my Amiga over two Months ago. I was Planing on making a BBS
>on the computer.  So the first thing I do is spend $120 on a set of 
>three BOOKS. Then I try to set up a printer cable by using the books
>and the printer manual. The cable did not work as the book was all wrong.
>None of the pins were right! 
>This Book was made by commodore and is not worth the paper it is printed on.
>Before I can make My BBS I need a few BASIC! (Not C!!!) peeks to check 
>to see if the modem is ringing and to check for carrier.
>

My gawd, how does this person even manage to log onto a UNIX system?
If the Commodore docs are that horrible in his estimation, how
horrible would the UNIX docs be? 

The Amiga docs are practically unreadable, but then I have never seen
a single technical document for a computer that was readable.

Children who dabble in BASIC shouldn't try to program, they might
strain something or otherwise hurt themselves. Commodore can be
excused for producing their technical documentation for "C"
programmers, because it's impossible to write professional-quality
software in interpretive BASIC, and it's professional-quality software
that will make or break the Amiga. For one thing, Joe Bloe's BBS
wouldn't even keep up with 1200 baud, without him adding some "C" or
machine language support to the thing.
-- 
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"The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with a
dead girl or a live boy."  -- Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards
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Eric Green {akgua,ut-sally}!usl!elg
           (Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509)