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- From: ludde@milou.nada.kth.se (Erik Lundevall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Hardware Reference Manual
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.172804.18614@kth.se>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 17:28:04 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.030920.15579@kth.se> <1992Dec11.144552.1339@imada.ou.dk>
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- In <1992Dec11.144552.1339@imada.ou.dk> breese@monet.imada.ou.dk (Bjoern Reese) writes:
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- >I got a copy of HRM (4th reprint, 1987) and it says absolutely NOTHING
- >about "the right way", nothing about upwards compatibility. It even
- >uses absolute adressing in its examples (like MOVE #$21000,bpl1pt.)
- >It urges people to use the hardware directly! The only limitation it
-
- The Hardware Reference Manual is just what the name implies, a reference
- book for the hardware and how it works. Not a book teaching how to program
- by hardware banging on the Amiga. That is quite a different thing.
- There is no information about how to say compatible with the system, because
- that is supposed to be covered by other RKMs.
-
- Some people was picturing the Amiga as a "super-C64" and they
- thought the HRM was the closest equivalent to "Mapping the 64" or similar
- books. That does not mean they were right.
-
-
- >You simply can't blame the hardware bangers without blaming C=.
- >Whether C= have matured or not, the harm was done, and they
- >contributed to this situation, IMHO.
-
- Possibly, because they thought that those who read the books would have
- some knowledge about OSes and interpret the given information in a proper
- way.
- Most people with backgrounds from the C64 isn't in that category, but they
- did like the Amiga and applied the knowledge they had on the new environment.
-
-
- >--
-
- >Bjoern Reese | Email: breese@imada.ou.dk
- >Odense University, Denmark | Voice: +45 65 932 182 (private)
- --
- -Erik Lundevall ludde@nada.kth.se
- ludde@adder.adsp.sub.org
- Your fault. Core dumped.
-