S.J.Raybould@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Simon Raybould) (09/25/90)
Can someone please clear my mind on this..
I was under the belief that the latest release of docs from Commodore was
the RKM 1.3 manuals. I thought that this consited of three books :
RKM Includes & Autodocs
RKM Libs & Devs
Intuition refrence manual
Hardware reference manual
Yesterday, I rang "Gordon Harwoods" computers (UK) to order the hardware ref
manual and was told that Libs & devs was no longer in print ??
ME> Do you have a copy of the Amiga hardware refrence manual in stock
GHC> No.
ME> Do you have Libs & Devs ? (to see if they actually sell books as the first
response was a bit negative).
GHC> That's no longer in print.
ME> What do you mean ?
GHC> It's been replaced by the new ones.
ME> What new ones, is the 2.0 documentation out yet ?
GHC> No its the 1.3 documentation. Everthing is in the intuition manual and
anything else is in the other one.
ME> The other one ?
GHC> Yes the hardware manual.
by this time the man at GHC was starting to get annoyed so I just agreed with
him and said I would call later in the week.
What is this man talking about ?
Is he a total idiot ? or does he know something I dont ?
Any information gratfully appreciated.
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In article <C-L%DR+@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> S.J.Raybould@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Simon Raybould) writes: >Can someone please clear my mind on this.. > >I was under the belief that the latest release of docs from Commodore was >the RKM 1.3 manuals. I thought that this consited of three books : > > RKM Includes & Autodocs > > RKM Libs & Devs > > Intuition refrence manual > > Hardware reference manual The 1.1 set (white with a coloured stripe) consisted of RKM: Exec RKM: Libraries and Devices (with autodocs and includes) Intuition Reference Manual Hardware Reference Manual For 1.3, the manuals were reorganized along more logical lines. The 1.3 set (various shades of blue) consists of Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Libraries and Devices (includes Intuition) ISBN 0-201-18187-8 Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Includes and AutoDocs ISBN 0-201-18177-0 Amiga Hardware Reference Manual ISBN 0-201-18157-6 >| British Telecom Fulcrum | name : Simon John Raybould {^.^} | Peter -- Peter Cherna, Software Engineer, Commodore-Amiga, Inc. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!peter peter@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com My opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of my employer. "Very strange... the window is broken on both sides."
bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson) (09/25/90)
In article <C-L%DR+@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> S.J.Raybould@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Simon Raybould) writes: >Can someone please clear my mind on this.. > >I was under the belief that the latest release of docs from Commodore was >the RKM 1.3 manuals. I thought that this consited of three books : > > RKM Includes & Autodocs > RKM Libs & Devs > Intuition refrence manual > Hardware reference manual > >Yesterday, I rang "Gordon Harwoods" computers (UK) to order the hardware ref >manual and was told that Libs & devs was no longer in print ?? > I will assume that the same books are sold in UK as in the U.S. The latest ROM Kernel manuals are those that document 1.3. They are the blue Addison Wesley manuals. The 'set' consists of: Amiga ROM KERNAL Reference Manual - Includes and Autodocs Amiga ROM KERNEL Reference Manual - Libraries and Devices Amiga HARDWARE Reference Manual The old Intuition Manual is now included in the Libraries and Devices manual. >| British Telecom Fulcrum | name : Simon John Raybould {^.^} | >| Fordrough Lane | path : sie@fulcrum.bt.co.uk \~/ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Brian Jackson Software Engineer @ Commodore-Amiga Inc. | | bj@cbmvax.commodore.com or ...{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!bj GEnie: B.J. | | "Huh?" - Lao-Tse | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis) (09/28/90)
In article <14636@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes: >The 1.1 set (white with a coloured stripe) consisted of >The 1.3 set (various shades of blue) consists of What about the (White and Black) set, no colors?. Was that for 1.0 or 0.9 or what? The 1.3s are a big improvement over those old ones. The B&W set I got had six manuals: Hardware Ref., Intuition, RKM vols 1 and 2, AmigaDOS Tech Ref., and I think the last was a Developers ref. I wore 'em out. > Peter Cherna, Software Engineer, Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Todd M. Lewis, programmer at large.
peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) (09/28/90)
In article <1990Sep27.211219.6266@uncecs.edu> utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis) writes: >In article <14636@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes: >>The 1.1 set (white with a coloured stripe) consisted of >>The 1.3 set (various shades of blue) consists of > >What about the (White and Black) set, no colors? Those are 1.0 Manuals. They had the same arrangement (volumes) as the 1.1 set, plus a trio of skinny volumes that later were published by Bantam as the AmigaDOS book. >> Peter Cherna, Software Engineer, Commodore-Amiga, Inc. > >Todd M. Lewis, programmer at large. Peter -- Peter Cherna, Software Engineer, Commodore-Amiga, Inc. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!peter peter@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com My opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of my employer. "Very strange... the window is broken on both sides."
hytandog@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Hakan Yildiray Tandogan) (10/02/90)
bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson) writes: >I will assume that the same books are sold in UK as in the U.S. >The latest ROM Kernel manuals are those that document 1.3. They are >the blue Addison Wesley manuals. The 'set' consists of: > Amiga ROM KERNAL Reference Manual - Includes and Autodocs > Amiga ROM KERNEL Reference Manual - Libraries and Devices > Amiga HARDWARE Reference Manual >The old Intuition Manual is now included in the Libraries and Devices >manual. BTW: Does anybody know where I can find info about that AmigaDos (the library)? I have bought the Includes & Autodocs and the Libraries and Devices manuals. The result: NO word about dos.library. Where is the exact description of the DOS-Packet system, how do handlers look like or file systems? And one special question - how does an Amiga network file system have to be built and how to be hooked into DOS (I read the includes - I KNOW there are varaibles for that purpose. And they didn't look like DOS privates!) -- #include <std_discalimer.h> Hakan 'Elric' Tandogan /// #include <clever_saying.h> /// email: hytandog@faui{09|44}.informatik.uni-erlangen.de \\\ /// What smail: Hakan Tandogan,Werderstrasse 23, D-8500 Nuernberg 20 \XXX/ Else?
aoe@hpfcso.HP.COM (Alexander Elkins) (10/08/90)
hytandog@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Hakan Yildiray Tandogan) writes: > BTW: Does anybody know where I can find info about that > AmigaDos (the library)? I have bought the Includes & > Autodocs and the Libraries and Devices manuals. The result: > NO word about dos.library. Where is the exact description > of the DOS-Packet system, how do handlers look like or > file systems? And one special question - how does an Amiga Yes, I noticed that too. If you get the 1.3 NDU from CBM, it's documented in the file LibrariesA-K/dos.doc on your Autodocs1.3 disk. - Alexander Elkins (aoe@hpfiaoe.HP.COM)