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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Path: cix.compulink.co.uk!usenet
- From: jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph")
- Subject: Re: Registrated developer, myth or reality?
- Message-ID: <DnuyrJ.H1J@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: Compulink Information eXchange
- References: <4hgq2e$1uv@news.uni-c.dk>
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 18:16:31 GMT
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-
- > > I also believe that BIX should play an important part in the budding
- > > developer support network.
- >
- > Why on earth would you want that?
-
- Probably for the same reason almost all UK developers use CIX (a very
- similar system to BIX based on similar software).
-
- At the time C= set up the ADSP system it was very very slow, buggy,
- dificult to set up and expensive to call. Hardly any developers in the UK
- used ADSP, we convinced C= UK to allow us to exchange information on the
- CIX conferencing system (a commercial system) which was secure,
- professionally managed and much easier to use.
-
- All I've heard from Amiga Technologies about this is "Using CIX/BIX is
- bad. We must stop all the UK developers using CIX" without them having
- the slightest clue why we ditched ADSP in the first place.
-
- And it worked! Everyone on CIX was happy. Everyone on BIX was happy. I'm
- not sure whether people on ADSP were ever happy or not, as we were never
- able to connect to it! Even Amiga Technologies UK realised this, and they
- set up two CIX accounts last year for their technical staff. Since Amiga
- Technologies UK was, effectively, closed down just after christmas these
- accounts have been stopped :-(
-
- UK developers won't stop using the CIX system. The closed confidential
- developer conferences are still active (I moderate them at the moment)
- and UK developers aren't likely to change unless a reliable and stable
- system is provided, and even then it will be used to complement CIX
- rather than replace it.
-
- Jolyon
-