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- From: ken@msor.ex.ac.uk (Ken Powell)
- Subject: Re: >>>>>>> The Future: Amiga goes P
- Message-ID: <DLFBJM.Cxp@exeter.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@exeter.ac.uk (news admin)
- Reply-To: ken@msor.ex.ac.uk
- Organization: At Exeter University - no chance
- References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960118195703.3068B-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 10:23:45 GMT
-
- In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.960118195703.3068B-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk>, Ben Hutchings <worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk> writes:
- >On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Reinhard Katzmann wrote:
- >[...]
- >> That's absolutely not real. You can get them (at least in germany) in every
- >> book store which gets his books from the KNoe book service (just looked
- >> in the actual 95/96 catalog), price:
- >> 73.-- DM Hardware, Devices
- >> 97.90 DM Includes & Autodocs
- >> 99,90 DM Libraries
- >> 55.-- DM Style Guide
- >
- >Thats 397.80 DM = $260 = 160 GBP by my reckoning for the lot, and those
- >are still nearly 6 years out of date (OS 2.0) if I remember correctly.
- >Then you also need to buy the Guru Book to get DOS documentation. How
- >many of us younger (<20) Amiga users can afford this documentation? It is
- >enough of a struggle to scrape together the money for the computer in the
- >first place; following which the various expansins (memory, HD, ROM, ...)
- [deletia]
-
- Come on Ben, I was in the same situation and the only things you really need
- to start system legal programming on the Ami are RKM:Libraries (30-35 in most
- UK book shops) and the NDK for 3.1 (was 23 from C=UK). This is a grand total
- of about 50-60 which is small beer; 2 games, 1/2 a C compiler, 1 app (if you're
- lucky) or 5 nights down the pub.
-
- If, as has been reported, AT are going to put the NDK on the net for free then
- you're down to a total cost of 30. This is less then you need to pay to start
- programming on the Mac or Windows, especially as you can use GCC for your
- compiler.
-
- Ken
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- Ken Powell - University of Exeter - Dept. of MSOR - ken@msor.ex.ac.uk
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