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From: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The 'BBC Micro'
Message-ID: <1989Dec18.115435.12734@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Dec 89 11:54:35 GMT
References: <891215-054835-6506@Xerox>
Reply-To: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
Organization: University of Bristol c/o University of Bath
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In article <891215-054835-6506@Xerox> "chaz_heritage.WGC1RX"@XEROX.COM writes:
>useful information. The Abacus publications (which I don't have myself)
>also look pretty good.

The first editions of most of the Abacus books (the ones I got, sigh)
were fairly riddled with errors (which, rumours had it, reflected
errors in the Atari 'developers' kit -- since a number of the earlier
3rd-party books contained the same or similar mistakes I find this
believeable.)  They are (at least almost) all now in 2nd or 3rd
revisions, so may be better.

I presently swear by Katherine Peel's 'The Concise Atari ST 68000
Programmer's Reference Guide' (but get a 2nd or later revision, first
didn't include any sort of index) and the 3-volume series by 'Compute'
(on AES, VDI, and TOS respectively).

-- 
Paul Smee, Univ of Bristol Comp Centre, Bristol BS8 1TW, Tel +44 272 303132
 Smee@bristol.ac.uk  :-)  (..!uunet!ukc!gdr.bath.ac.uk!exspes if you MUST)