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From: stan@hpcvca.HP.COM (Stan Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RKM
Message-ID: <5660034@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 89 05:31:12 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:

>> I put my order in anyway,
>> in the hope that they will be published before V1.4 comes out 8-).

> But why would you want RKM manuals that describe (if up to date) V1.3
> if they will soon be obsoleted by V1.4 which is supposed to be a big
> revision?  Is it perhaps that you think V1.4 is so far in the future
> that RKMs describing V1.3 (to be published RSN :-)) will nevertheless
> be current sufficiently long to be usefull?
> Is this attitude  optimistic?  realistic? or pessimistic? :-)

Well, I don't know for sure.  Depends on how you look at it 8-).
In the computer world, few released things are not immediately obsolete.
One has to start somewhere gathering information.  Today is just about
as good as tomorrow.

I doubt that everything in the kernel will be obsolete when 1.4 is
released (did someone say upwardly compatible?),  and, most likely,
those things that do change will be well documented.

On a scale of o to p, I'll give it an r.

                                
Stan Gibbs
hplabs!hp-pcd!stan