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From: dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer)
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Subject: Abacus books, Mark Williams C
Message-ID: <397@atari.UUcp>
Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 14:04:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 24 14:04:27 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Jul-86 06:16:29 EDT
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In article <1532@cwruecmp.UUCP>, bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP (Jwahar R. Bammi) writes:
> X *	The timers on the MFP are controlled by a 2.4576 Mhz xtal (Yes the
> X *	Atari Internals book is once again wrong!).

THE BAD
The quality of information in the Abacus books is suprisingly
poor.  They contain an enourmous amount of misinformation and
stuff that's just plain /wrong/.  I would stay away from these
books, like the plague.  The consensus in Atari's software
engineering department is that they're not worth much.


THE GOOD
The Mark Williams C Compiler is shipping.  It looks like a
*real* good job.  The compiler is (comparatively) fast, its
documentation is good, and it comes with some nice tools
(make, and so on).


THE MISUNDERSTOOD
We've received several applications here that appear to
depend on the ST's operating system being located at
0xfa0000.  This is a no-no.  Use the system variable
`_sysbase' (long at 0x4f2) which points to the base of the
running system.
-- 

-Landon Dyer, Atari Corp.		{sun,lll-lcc,lll-crg!vecpyr}!atari!dyer

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