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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Manuals
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Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 12:53:11 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 27 12:53:11 1987
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> If you think your's are bad, loook at their
>>manual for the Commodore 64. And theres the story about the C64 programmers
>>reference guide on the subject of smooth scrolling. You look in the index for
>>...

	The C64 manual was *horrible* (sorry andy).  The information was there
(or most of it anyway), but the layout was so bad that you had to flip through
the entire book every time you wanted to look something up.

>In article <1766@crash.CTS.COM> amiguy@pnet01.CTS.COM (Sean Wolfe) writes:
>>That's the way Commodore does their manuals. I was almost impressed when
>>I saw my manuals for the A1000. 

	The A1000 manual (that came with the computer) was quite a bit better
than the C64 manual, but still lacks the organisation (sp).

>Personally, I didn't fine the Compute books all that helpful.

	Neither do I.

	In my opinion, the A500 manual is the best of the lot.  Workbench, CLI,
machine connections and pinouts, and a separate BASIC manual.  The A500 manual
covers a wider range of users (or user brains) ... all except the programmers
(us), which is just as well since we need thousands of pages of reference
material anyway and it doesn't make sense to include all that junk in the box.

BTW I refering to manuals which come with the computer, not 'other' stuff 
like the RKM etc....

					-Matt