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Subject: Re: Abacus books, Mark Williams C
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Date: Mon, 28-Jul-86 18:03:00 EDT
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Another hint:

The Abacus books are English translations of books written by one of the
biggest German Atari Dealers (Data Becker in Duesseldorf; Becker also imports
fine American cars to Germany). Many German developers think that Data Becker
has better connections to Atari in America than the not even small German
subsidary of Atari. The informations contained in the books are mostly from
the developers documentation, only in a much better order and not so much
PC specific. So think:
1. Developers documentation in English
2. German Data Becker books (1. Translation)
3. English Abacus books (2. Translation)
So don't be suprised about errors. There are many chances to make some. But:
Data Becker also publishes a magazine in which (the only in Germany) Mr. Stumpf
(German Atari leader) and Jack Tramiel himself are interviewed at Tramiels
home at a nice American (Canadian??) lake (including pictures, very nice :-) ).
So we have to ask: Why are those Abacus books not better in their quality???
(Neil?)

Conclusion: The ST is great, but Atari is not even better than any other
firm in this business.

     Uwe Hoch
     Computer Science Department, University of Dortmund
     4600 Dortmund 50, P.O. Box 500500, W.-Germany
     E-mail address: uh@unido.uucp, uh@unido.bitnet