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- From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Hardware Reference Manual
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.193951.27913@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 19:39:51 GMT
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- In <6416@pdxgate.UUCP> idr@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Ian D Romanick) writes:
- >that bangs the hardware. NO MATTER WHAT! The difference is that with a
- >manual people will know the right way to do it! The idea behind having a
- >manual is to prevent the complaints of, "Hey, this (what ever) doesn't work
- >on my machine!" You'll notice that a lot of the stuff that really breaks is
- >older stuff. Old demos (for example) tend to break if you run them off the
- >wrong drive. :^) This is because nobody knew what was right and what was
- >wrong, and they didn't care. Now, we do care! But we need the other half
- >of the set!
-
- Well, someone else commented that before and I can only repeat. The existence
- of the hardware manual hasn't helped at all, why should a new one do the
- trick ?
-
- Some of todays demos may run on an A3000 but just because the demo coder
- had access to an A3000 and not because he had the manual.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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