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From: kim@mips.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Addison-Wesley RKM
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Date: Thu, 17-Jul-86 00:03:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 17 00:03:57 1986
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[ "Send lawyers, guns, and money ..." ]

> So the local bookstore finally received something from Addison-Wesley that
> claimed to be a Rom Kernal Manual.  The price was the same--$24.95--but
> there was only a tiny part of the original manual!  The book covers 
> Exec, which is necessary knowledge for making programs behave well in the
> Amiga environment, but which is useless if you don't have the necessary 
> information to make the programs in the first place!

The 2nd Addison-Wesley RKM manual is also out now (came in yesterday at
the Computer Literacy Bookstore in Sunnyvale).  I too expected it would
be about the same size as the other RKM (and other two A-W manuals), but
it is NOT!

The "Amiga ROM Kernel Manual: Libraries and Devices" is about 3-times the
thickness of the RKM: Exec manual.  Combined, these are *approximately* the
thickness of the "real" CBM 2-vol set;  they still seem a little bit thinner,
though.

I dunno what (if anything) was omitted ... could be just a change in the
type style/density.


> The back cover promises a second part to the RKM, Libraries and Devices, or
> something, which will presumably be available for $24.95 as well.

Nope.  It's about $10.00 more ... $34.95, if I remember correctly.


> So, whenever that day appears (hopefully before the Amiga gets obsoleted by
> the next generation of micros), I will have spent $75.00 to get what my 
> friends got for $25.00 way back when the Amiga software market was an
> uncluttered open field.

I dunno what they got for $25.00, but it sure wasn't the full documentation
package ... or even the v1.0 single vol RKM manual, so far as I know.



What I'd like to know is what level of s/w these RKM's are for ... v1.1,
v1.2, or something "in-between".  There are NO cards for updates in them,
either ... where/how will NEW information be made available?

/kim
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