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From: hachong@watmath.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: amiga & st
Message-ID: <16564@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 17:12:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 17:12:11 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 24-Sep-85 03:24:11 EDT
References: <3702@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: hachong@watmath.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <3702@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> dan@BBN-LABS-B.ARPA writes:
>I think Atari really is encouraging third-party development, especially
>compared to Commodore.  To get the Amiga's program development package you have
>to be certified as a real, bona-fide developer who's going to help make them
>rich.  To get the Atari program development package all you have to supply (in
>addition to $300) is the serial number of your machine.  My guess is that
>they're afraid that the people who bought it to run Express would find 4000
>pages of documentation and a user-hostile development environment much too
>intimidating.

does this mean that i, a private individual who has no serious intentions
of marketing software but am a real hacker, cannot get enough documentation
to do heavy duty development using the system interfaces without starting
my own company?  i have more than 40Mbytes of public domain C source
that i'd like to convert to the Amiga, but if they don't tell me how,
i'd rather buy an Atari, even though its graphics are not nearly as good.

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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