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- From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
- Subject: Re: Searching for DOS documentation
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.201555.5494@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- References: <1992Dec10.003945.18444@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Dec10.133732.6556@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:15:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec10.133732.6556@samba.oit.unc.edu> Todd_Lewis@unc.edu (Todd M. Lewis) writes:
- >[We're bashing the Bantam manual here, so you late-comers need not
- > take pot-shots at the wrong target. Go get your own thread! :-) ]
- >
- >In article <1992Dec10.003945.18444@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- >jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:
- >> The real problem here is that the filesystem was handed over to
- >>Commodore on a silver platter when they purchased the Amiga from Amiga Corp
- >>back in 1985. Plus, I don't believe the documentation was all that good
- >>either.
- >
- >I'm not sure how well that early DOS was documented, but it had been
- >used for some time under TRIPOS so there must have been some docs.
- >BTW, I have an early copy (the White Books) that are the 3 "books"
- >which now make up the Bantam manual. They came in a multi-volume set
- >that included separate Intuition, RKM Libraries and Devices vol I & II,
- >Hardware, and the 3 DOS manuals. The 3 DOS manuals are not notably
- >better or worse than their great grand-child.
- >
- >>[...] Commodore ought to be more up on the
- >>curve nowadays (7 years later), but if they are the current release of the
- >>AmigaDOS manual certainly doesn't reflect it. Maybe Commodore shuts them out
- >>(like they do everyone else) who doesn't meet their silly requirements IMHO
- >>of being a developer (have to be developing a product even if you have no
- >>clue how to go about it).
- >
- >That just doesn't hold up. C= gives pretty good support to their
- >developers. It's true that "the AmigaDOS manual certainly doesn't reflect it,"
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- I was a developer for a year - I didn't think so. Most of the questions I
- needed answers to were not mainsteam like graphics and intuition. Plus, I
- wasn't to keen on the idea that you had to practically "spill the beans"
- about what you were working on to get decent answers. At the end of the year
- when my renewal came up I decided not to tell Commodore what I was working on.
- Afterall, it had done absolutely no good the year before. CATS wrote back and
- rejected my application saying that I did not comply to their rules. Sure, I
- could have lied to pacify them, but that wasn't ethical.
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- Jeff
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