Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!think!mit-eddie!mit-trillian!micah From: micah@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Micah P. Doyle) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: Abacus books Message-ID: <925@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> Date: Fri, 25-Jul-86 14:53:42 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-tril.925 Posted: Fri Jul 25 14:53:42 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 25-Jul-86 22:00:02 EDT References: <1532@cwruecmp.UUCP> <397@atari.UUcp> Reply-To: micah@trillian.UUCP (Micah P. Doyle) Organization: MIT Project Athena Lines: 14 In article <397@atari.UUcp> dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer) writes: >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. Are there any books available (or soon to be available) that are better? Or is a developers kit the only option? ----- Micah Doyle micah@athena.MIT.EDU mit-eddie!mit-athena!micah