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- From: mojaveg@mojaveg.ridgecrest.ca.us (Everett M. Greene)
- Subject: Re: Are Amiga users steadily becoming Amiga Programmers?
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- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:27:18 GMT
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- In article <4k7clr$5c3@plains.nodak.edu> ortmann@plains.nodak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) writes:
- > In article <4josqd$efq@news.internetmci.com>,
- > Dave Gentry <dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com> wrote:
- > >Is it me, or does it seem like more and more Amiga users are asking
- > >for the ROM Kernel Manuals, OS3.1 NDK, example code, SAS C development
- > >environment, etc? With the pullout of most of the commercial
- > The Amiga has always been a magnet for people who want to grow. I do not
- > personally know of *any* Amiga owner that has not rather quickly been
- > pulled into programming.
- >
- > Speaking for myself, I did not *know* how deeply I was diving into the
- > system. I studied the ROM Kernel Manuals and header files for *months*,
- > and thought to myself "Gee, I must be stupid or somthing...this stuff
- > seems really tough!" It was only a few years later while going back to
- > school to get my graduate degree in EE that I found out value of that
- > total immersion; in my 68k assembly class I routinely wrote 200+ code
- > that assembled, and passed all tests on the FIRST try!
- >
- > I know that this is a common experience among Amiga amigos. There is
- > too much good code out there to explain it any other way. :-)
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- We are probably seeing the effect of the only remaining Amiga users/owners
- being those who are deeply into the Amiga as heavy-duty users and/or
- developers. Both groups include people who do their own programming to some
- degree.
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- Everett M. Greene (The Mojave Greene, crotalus scutulatus scutulatus)
- Ridgecrest, Ca. 93555 Path: mojaveg@ridgecrest.ca.us
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