NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/programm/16265

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Path: sparky!uunet!nevada.edu!jimi!ronnie.cs.unlv.edu!maniac
From: [e-mail] (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
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Sender: [e-mail] (News User)
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Organization: UNLV Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 00:05:51 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Paul Kienitz) writes:
) > Er, what is an AutoDoc?
)
) > What i'd like to know is what C= actually object to.
)
) I think I just said something about speaking from ignorance.  I
) didn't realize how right I was.
)
) First question: the Autodocs are the official documentation of each
) function in the OS.  If you don't read the autodocs then you don't
) know the capabilities of the OS.  It really is that simple.  Not
) studying the autodocs == not knowing what you're talking about when
) you say what the OS can or can't do.

I really didn't want to get caught up in this one, but I agree completely.
Anyone who isn't familiar with the OS shouldn't flame it like they think
they know what their talking about.

I remember one Democoder that flamed the Amiga OS because "You can't open
a window without those ugly borders".  As for speed, yes the generic graphics
routines aren't the fastest, but properly used, they do very well, and you can
get at some of the less generic routines in the OS, all well documented in
the RKM's.


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Eric J. Schwertfeger, [e-mail]