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From: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How to know we are in TOS 1.0?
Message-ID: <1989Dec21.120602.11181@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Dec 89 12:06:02 GMT
References: <452@mirsa.inria.fr> <1903@atari.UUCP>
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 <1903@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>
>That doesn't matter.  If you paid to become a registered developer, you
>would be able to look this stuff up instead of bothering all of us! :-)
>You don't have to be a commercial developer to join the Atari developer
>program.  (I know I'm answering your question anyway -- think of it as
>advertising. (If you're a Net God, *don't* think of it as advertising!))

Your mileage may vary on this one, depending on which Atari subsidiary
you have to deal with.  I contacted Atari UK (some time ago, maybe I
should try again) about the developers kit, and was told that in
addition to the money I would have to inform them of my 'trading name',
and would have to agree to keep them informed of what I was using the
information to develop, so that they could ask me to stop if it
interfered with their own internal or contracted-out development.

The concept that I might just want it for fun didn't seem to be one
which they could grasp.  Since I was unable to comply with the first
condition, and unwilling to comply with the second on principle, I
dropped the idea.  (Though I occasionally toy with the idea of having
my mother buy me a US developers kit (she's in Pittsburgh PA) and
forwarding it to me.)


-- 
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)