bobp@amiga.UUCP (Robert S. Pariseau) (10/30/85)
I sent the following out as a reply, but it came bouncing back due to what our usenet guru here called "the infamous gateway problem." In any event, I hope you're listening, Rutgers. ------------------ The Amiga manuals, including the AmigaDOS User's Manual which describes the editors and other CLI stuff that comes with every Amiga, and the more technical manuals needed by developers will be in the stores in the next 30 days. The Amiga Assembler, Lattice C for Amiga, Amiga Pascal, and Lisp are also in shipment. (Textcraft is coming too, but I digress). The manuals have been shipping to developers in limited numbers for the past few weeks while we build up our stocks. There is really no good reason why the AmigaDOS User's Manual has not made it to the stores yet. I apologize for any inconvenience the delay has caused -- it's certainly not out of any intention to keep this stuff secret! The Amiga ROM Kernel Manual is undergoing a complete rewrite. The V1.0 manual which is part of the display sets now in the stores won't be sold to the public. The V1.1 manual should make it into the stores right about the time the V1.1 software upgrade starts shipping with the machines (late November). (By the way, we are encouraging dealers to make this upgrade available to any of their customers just by copying the disks involved -- Amiga software distributed by Commodore is not copy protected now and won't be in the future unless you guys force us to.) The latest technical information on the Amiga is available on the Amiga BBS. As I write this, that BBS is not open to the public, but we intend to make it available to anyone who cares to subscribe very soon. I'll make announcements about this, and other developer related news, on Usenet as it becomes available. While waiting the two weeks for the manuals, we will be happy to answer any questions you have about the Amiga computer. Just mail them to amiga!support. If the answers are of general interest, we will post them here in net.micro.amiga.