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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!imada!news
- From: breese@monet.imada.ou.dk (Bjoern Reese)
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.150305.14966@imada.ou.dk>
- Sender: news@imada.ou.dk (USENET News System)
- Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark
- References: <alien.00ze@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:03:05 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <alien.00ze@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz
- (Ross Smith) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov10.135706.383@ugle.unit.no> mortene@Lise.Unit.NO (Morten
- Eriksen) writes:
- > >>[10 demos for the full range of Amigas?]
- > >[10 democoders with access to full range of Amigas?]
- >
- > 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.
-
- How about the Lucasfilm game for the A4000 only? How about all the major
- applications which in reality can't run on a A500, due to space and speed
- limitations?
-
- >
- > 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.
- >
-
- When I buy a new machine, I intend to use it. I am a programmer - therefore
- I program. I expect to be able to program as I like. It's my machine, it's
- my choice. If I'll make commercial programs, my employees would want me to
- make the programs run on any machine... and that's fine. But if I'll make
- a demo or whatever, and it works on all machines it's fine... if not, pop
- goes the weasel. My choice.
-
- It's my computer, I bought it, and I can use it as I like. If C= wants any
- order in the chaos, I think they'll better release a new hardware reference
- guide.
-
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-
- Bjoern Reese | Email: breese@imada.ou.dk
- Odense University, Denmark | Voice: +45 65 932 182 (private)
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