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- From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
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- References: <Bx7782.CKD@kingston.ac.uk> <1992Nov5.184916.17436@sth.frontec.se> <1927@lysator.liu.se> <BxAMtH.Aos@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1992Nov9.125922.1445@sth.frontec.se> <1992Nov13.083504.58455@qut.edu.au>
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- Message-ID: <mwm.2mi5@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 00:27:19 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
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- In <1992Nov13.083504.58455@qut.edu.au>, podesta@qut.edu.au wrote:
- > Come on now!! How many advanced system software, that was written on a
- > 1.3 A500 with no harddrive will work on a A4000???
- > I bet there's not much.
-
- Hmm - if by "advanced system software" you mean the OS, you're
- probably right. On the other hand, the authors of the OS are releasing
- a bundled package, and _know_ what hardware the thing has to run on.
- It's not important whether they run on hardware that they'll never be
- run on.
-
- People not working for CBM don't have that advantage. They don't
- control what set of machines their software will be shipped with and
- expected to run on.
-
- Now, if you mean applications - my two most heavily used applications
- were developed under 1.2, one on an A500, the other on an A1000. The
- authors of both upgraded to A3000s under the power-up program, and I
- know both applications work just fine under 3.0. The next two most
- heavily used applications date from the 1.3 era, and also work just
- fine under 3.0.
-
- > And don't forget that demo coders don't get any wonderful Developers info.
-
- For that, they have no one to blame but themselves.
-
- <mike
-