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From: jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: STE DMA sound (documentation posted)
Message-ID: <1978.25eb153e@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 28 Feb 90 00:03:10 GMT
References: <22463@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <37193@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: University of Helsinki
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In article <37193@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, kclenden@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Kevin Clendenien) writes:
> 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.  
> 
>    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.
> 

I am not very sure, but I think I have seen A LOT of "official"
technical documents for the Macintosh freely available for example in
ftp sites. This is something Atari should do, too. 

	Jouni Alkio, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland