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From: kclenden@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Kevin Clendenien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: STE DMA sound (documentation posted)
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Date: 27 Feb 90 04:22:30 GMT
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In article <22463@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Chris Roth) writes:
>   I am glad that SOMEONE at least is posting information about Atari
>machines, Atari sure isn't going to do it!  It is a sad state of
>affairs when you have to spend a couple of hundred bucks just to get
>information on your machine.  
>
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>*     Christoper Roth                         *  "Machines have no 
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Christoper,

   Don't be so glad.  If people keep breaking their agreements with 
Atari not to publish this information, Atari will have no choice but
to restrict the information even further.

   As far as having to spend a couple of hundred bucks just to get
information on your machine, this is no different than IBM, Mac, or
Amiga computers.  When you buy IBM and DOS, do you get a technical
reference manual?  NO!  Sure it's available, but at a cost.  This
same scenario is played out with both Mac and Amiga computers.  You
can find information on the Atari line of computers without having
to become a developer.  But, just as with the above mentioned
computers, you will have to pay for it.  I wish information was
free, but we all know that just ain't so.  Knowledge makes the world
go round.  Not just in the computer field, but in every field.

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kclenden@silver.bacs.indiana.edu                          Kevin Clendenien
BLoomington Atari ST users group                          BLAST, President
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