14 May
1999
14 May
'99
9:09 p.m.
On May 15, 0:47, Tony Duell wrote:
I wasn't really moaning about the AUG - it's
an excellent manual (and you
get mine over my deaad body ;-)). It's just that most BBC hackers had
that manual and not much else, so that stuff that wasn't covered in that
book tends to be thought of as 'undocumented'.
I've still got mine, thanks! It's a pity some dealers were not inclined to
be more forthcoming, because Acorn did make a lot of documentation
available, and would often provide it to users who wrote in; but dealers
were always able to get it for customers, and even had a system (SID) to
obtain lots of information, upgrade software, etc, via dial-up. They also
had a large 2-volume set of 2" ring binders with diagrams, info, etc
(that's where those System diagrams I gave you came from).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York