Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!carroll1!dnewton From: dnewton@carroll1.cc.edu (Dave Newton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: STE DMA sound (documentation posted) Message-ID: <1247@carroll1.cc.edu> Date: 27 Feb 90 06:15:19 GMT References: <22463@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <37193@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Reply-To: dnewton@carroll1.cc.edu (Dave Newton the Late) Organization: Organization? We don't need no steenkin' organization. Lines: 26 In article <37193@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> kclenden@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Kevin Clendenien) writes: + 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. ThisO + 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. Sure, I can get a DOS book for around $25 that details all the DOS and BIOS calls. I can get a complete listing of the Amiga kernal for about the same amount. I can buy the _entire_ Inside macintosh series for less than $150, and that includes all the hardware and evangalizing, too. Almost doesn't seem fair. Almost wish ST people could get cheap, complete docs like _they_ can. I don't have $250 to become a developer right now. But I have about 3-4 books that answer nearly _every_ hardware or software question about the PC/AT line: total (list) cost: about $115. -- David L. Newton | uunet!marque!carroll1!dnewton (414) 524-7343 (work) | dnewton@carroll1.cc.edu (414) 524-6809 (home) | 100 NE Ave, Waukesha WI 53186