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From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ST docs
Summary: ST documentation is worth it! Really!!!
Keywords: documentation, software, updates
Message-ID: <1431@atari.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 89 00:40:42 GMT
References: <1423@atari.UUCP> <1221@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1221@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> rogers@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Bob Rogers) writes:
|Do you folks _ever_ intend to publish this information in a readily available
|and affordable format?

  Yes.

|From what I saw of the developer's docs (I saw a 
|copy a couple of years ago) they're not professional quality documentation.

  The ST documentation is much better now than it was several years ago.

|Given the tiny percentage of the market that the ST has, and the tiny number 
|of (mostly tiny) companies that write software for it, can you really afford
|to "certainly break software"?

  Context!  We definitely can afford to, and most certainly will, break...
|>software that either a) didn't follow the rules in the first place, or
|>b) was built on bad assumptions about the internal workings of TOS.

|Bob Rogers                    rogers@stpaul.ncr.com  or  rogers@pnet51.cts.com
|NCR Comten, St. Paul, MN      GEnie: R.C.ROGERS

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