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From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Documentation Only
Summary: Charles Cherry Says ....
Message-ID: <48a4e0dc.14a1f@force.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 90 19:46:46 GMT
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In article <8532@pogo.WV.TEK.COM>, bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Bob Luneski) writes:
> >"The only documentation from my dept. is sold as part of the developer's
> >kit.  Mr. Badertscher was in error - unless this was an old message"
> 
> The "documentation only" only version IS the developers kit without MWC,
> extended support, and TOS 1.4 Roms. It is available at a reduced price.

I just spoke to Charles Cherry about becoming a Developer and was told
that Atari is changing the Developer program. Currently, there is only one
level, that of Commerical Developer, which costs $250. This is down from
$300 in 1989. this includes the Atari Docs and the Alycon C compiler. The
old package, which cost $50 more , included the Mark Williams Corp C compiler.
The MWC compiler was dropped since most developers already owned a compiler,
and didn't need it. Charles told me that the MWC compiler can still be purchased
thru Atari (as a developer) for $100. sounds fair to me.

Charles did say that Atari is trying to make a Non_Commerical Developer class,
but that it is not announced yet. 

So, there is NO "documentation only" developer package, but the Full Commerical
Dev Package has benn dropped to $250.00.

As always contact Gail Johnson at Atari Corp for more info.


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