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- From: Jesse_Michael@matrix.rain.com (Jesse Michael)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware Manual)
- Message-ID: <Jesse_Michael.02qy@matrix.rain.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 17:51:23 GMT
- Organization: The Matrix BBS
- Lines: 44
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- In a message dated Sat 12 Dec 92 14:17, Ejad-A@minster.york.ac.uk wrote:
-
- >Is it necessary to go all or nothing for either the OS or hardware
- bashing?
- >Why do h/ware bashers look down on OS programmers and vice versa? It's
- just
- >the way you choose to do things. So why the hostility? As long as nobody
- >gets hurt, it's OK. I do think though that commercial programmers have a
- >*responsibility* to ensure their programs are OS friendly. Demo coders
- don't
- >have a similar responsibility...
-
- I don't think the OS is bad, it's just a problem of using the right tool
- for the job.
-
- If I want to write a utility, I go completely through the OS.
-
- But, if I want to write a program with _fast_ inconvex filled vector
- objects, the overhead of the OS causes too much of a performance hit.
-
- I think that if someone uses hardware-level code in a commercial
- application that doesn't need it (e.g. a word processing program) then they
- deserve all the problems it causes them.
-
- >In the end of it we just have to put up with what C= choose, and if they
- >think
- >it's best for the Amiga, 'tis so.
-
- But, when it's something that will ultimately *hurt* the Amiga, then we
- have the responsibility to *try* to point it out.
-
- I think they should release hardware references in the future, *but* they
- must provide a good example of how to *really* use the hardware. Not like
- the examples in the old hardware reference manuals. (e.g. absolute
- addressing)
-
- -Jesse
-
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