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From: dcw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Duncan C White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Facts, not only talking a
Message-ID: <1529@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Feb 90 15:25:11 GMT
References: <90011904271742@masnet.uucp> <1989@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: dcw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Duncan C White)
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In article <1989@atari.UUCP> kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes:
>You can purchase developer documentation by itself for a significantly
>reduced price.  The latest release of the developer documentation is
>professionally printed, indexed, and includes several new addenda.

(Reduced from $300, for those not following this thread)

I would be interested in knowing exactly WHAT this "significantly reduced
price for the documentation alone" is.  Is it on sale to the general
public?  Or do you have to become a Registered Developer (complete with
non disclosure agreement) in order to see a word of it?

I have spent some time studying the original (circa 1985) developer's
documentation, and, in my opinion, it is a badly photocopied, badly written,
incomplete and misleading set of junk.
I'm very glad to hear Ken say that Atari are finally getting round to
producing a decent version. Only 5 years late, I guess..

(All this may be complicated by the fact that I'm in the UK, and Atari UK
are generally regarded as even worse than Atari US...)

Finally, may I say that I am not trying to criticise Ken or any other of
the Atari employees who spend some of their time being "visible" on the
Net.  I have two Ataris (one being repaired :-), I like them, but I think
the level of technical information freely available to anyone - general public
or developers - has been appalling ever since the ST was released.

	Duncan

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Duncan White,           |       Doctor: "I'm sure I've forgotten something.."
Dept. Of Computing,     |       Shopkeeper: "Haven't you forgotten something?"
Imperial College,       |       Doctor: "Yes..but what?"
London SW7		|       Shopkeeper: "Money"
England,		|	Doctor: "Oh no, that wasn't it"
The Earth.		|	(wanders off looking puzzled, without paying)
(or Gallifrey?)		|		Survival episode I, 22nd Nov 1989