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From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: STE DMA sound (documentation posted)
Summary: Atari Support Doesn't Match Apple Support
Message-ID: <48ef7017.14a1f@force.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 90 15:35:27 GMT
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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.  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.


Horse pukey!!!


Apple gives much better support and much of it is free!!

Just read the mac.binaries newsgroup. Apple is always posting
Macintosh Technical Notes there (which unfortunately ar BinHexed and
can't be read on UNIX machines!).

Just in the last couple of days Apple posted over a dozen Technical Notes
covering various aspects of System 7 and Hypercard and other subjects.

It makes me jealous to see some much technical information being so freely
deseminated!! And Atari Corp has the nerve to criticize a magazine reporter
for publishing programming notes on the STe! Geez, with Apple, you would have
seen the Mac Tech Notes BEFORE a reporter had a chance to "link" them.

Just goes to show you the difference between a REAL COMPUTER COMPANY and 
A GAMES MACHINE COMPANY!!

And as far as buying Tech Books, there are hundreds of programming and technical
and self-help books for the Macintosh. Except for Turner's self-published books,
there hasn't been a new ST book published in the USA for 2 years!!

Argh!!! And Atari Corp has the nerve to criticize a reporter for publishing
notes about an Atari computer (actually the STe is better classified as a
games machine!. I don't need stereo sound for DTP! ).


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