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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!amigans!acheron!alien
- From: alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <alien.00ze@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 12:44:52 GMT+12
- References: <Bx7782.CKD@kingston.ac.uk> <1992Nov5.184916.17436@sth.frontec.se> <1992Nov10.135706.383@ugle.unit.no>
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- Organization: Wanganui Amigans, Wanganui, NZ
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- In article <1992Nov10.135706.383@ugle.unit.no> mortene@Lise.Unit.NO (Morten Eriksen) writes:
- >>Can you give me the names of 10 advanced demos which all work on the full
- >>range of Amigas (A500, A500+, A600, A1000, A1200, A2000, A3000, A4000)?
- >>
- >>No, I didn't think so either...
- >>
- >So, please give us the names of 10 great democoders which all have unlimited
- >access to all the computers you mentioned.
- >
- >Nope, didn't think so either... ;)
-
- You've missed his point! The whole point of using the OS instead of hitting
- the metal is so that you can write a program that runs on every Amiga
- *without* having them all there to test it on! A demo-writer who writes
- something that only works on the particular machine(s) they have is guilty
- of exactly the sort of thing C='s "no more hardware docs" policy is intended
- to prevent.
-
- I think C= have got this one right. Don't let the programmers access
- machine-specific hardware, and we won't have anywhere near as much
- frustration with programs that don't work on new machines.
-
-
- --
- ...... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......
- "If there is ever a war between men and machines,
- it is easy to guess who will start it." (Arthur C Clarke)
-
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