Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jeh From: jeh@elmgate.UUCP (Ed Hanway) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: STE DMA sound (documentation posted) Message-ID: <1218@elmgate.UUCP> Date: 1 Mar 90 17:13:24 GMT References: <22463@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <37193@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <48e598ff.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Sender: jeh@elmgate.UUCP Reply-To: jeh@elmgate.UUCP (Ed Hanway) Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY Lines: 22 It's interesting to note that at about the same time that an Atari employee was complaining about STE documentation being posted, an employee of a competing company was posting complete specs on how to design for one of their expansion ports. There's plenty of information which should rightly be covered by non- disclosure agreements: future products, strategies, etc. But any effort to restrict the spread of the information necessary to use, program, or expand a current product is misguided. (Of course, as bad as the Atari distribution network in the US is, perhaps the STE isn't a current product yet. But I hardly think that would be an acceptable excuse.) With non-support such as this, I'm frankly surprised that there's any public domain or shareware software available for the ST. And unless the policy changes, I'd expect free software for the STE and TT to be even more rare. Ed Hanway Eastman Kodak Company ...!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jeh #include