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From: acs@amdahl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Words for The Wise!
Message-ID: <3466@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Jul-86 02:26:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.3466
Posted: Sat Jul 19 02:26:41 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jul-86 22:32:08 EDT
References: <1378@garfield.UUCP> <814@usl.UUCP>
Reply-To: acs@amdahl.UUCP (Tony Sumrall)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
Lines: 33
Keywords: BASIC, tech info
Summary: Whose fault is it?

In article <814@usl.UUCP> elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green) writes:

> 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.
> >
> 
> 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.

Seems to me that this is simply a case of misinformation being purveyed to
an "innocent" would-be user.  Since one can write a fair BBS for the IBM-PC
in BASIC it does seem reasonable that a similar thing could be done with the
Amiga.  Methinks that Mr. Dawson would be much better off flogging his dealer.

BTW I wouldn't say that the AmigaBASIC documentation is all that great.
-- 
Tony Sumrall                    ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,seismo,sun}!amdahl!acs

[ Opinions expressed herein are the author's and should not be construed
  to reflect the views of Amdahl Corp. ]