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From: papa@bacall.UUCP (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Update for Lattice C Compiler
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Date: Mon, 22-Dec-86 22:19:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 22 22:19:11 1986
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In article <479@hao.UUCP> Howard Hull writes:
> Class3 is the developer's C package.  It was produced concurrently with the
> affore mentioned Class 2 product, and has the same disks.  Documentation was
> much more substantial (see below).  It was made available as soon as CA was
> ready to mass-manufacture the Amiga.  CA used it to attract *established*
> software developers.  Once CA had determined that they had been approached
> by all of the large established developers, they began to open the deal to
> the lesser known established developers.  They made the package available,
> complete with a set of five manuals - RKM, Intuition, Hardware, AmigaDOS
> Developers, and AmigaDOS Technical Reference - available with the purchase
> of a developer's Amiga (distinguished by a speakerless but finer dot pitch
> and medium-long persistance monitor, model 1070).  This package was first
> announced on the net by Lavitsky @ Rutgers.  I don't have the actual net
> article on line at the moment, but I believe the price of the package was
> $800 to those who sent in a letter claiming that they had successfully
  ^^^^
> developed a software product for any other computer in the commercial market.
> Developers who either wrote the truth or lied were accepted as registered
> developers.  This same package, less the Amiga and monitor, was subsequently
> offered for $450 to any programmer who sent payment in advance.  Those who
              ^^^^
Howard is almost completely right, except that the developer machine prices 
are a thousand dollars less then the real ones: The amiga system 1 (Amiga
256K ram card and external drive + all the abover software) was given to
"official" developers at $1500, the amiga system 2 (same as amiga system 1 
plus the 1070 monitor) was offered to developers at $1900.  I agree that the
1070 monitor that I have looks much better than the 1080.  Somebody told
me that it is actually sold overseas to use with other Commodore products.

-- Marco Papa
   Felsina Software