kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) (01/16/90)
So, my argument comes full circle: Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) writes: | Speaking of hacking...I am disturbed that Atari engineers feel that | the home computer hacker, the guy who wants to software/hardware | hack on his machine, no longer exits as a whole. I rest my case that information distributed via networks such as Usenet can become mangled and twisted. I was the Atari engineer responsible for the Usenet articles claiming that Atari could not afford to support the average hacker at the level they need. One of my points was that the more stuff went out via "unofficial" channels, the greater the chance of it being warped. I fully recognize the strong base of hacker types that own ST's, I do NOT think that Atari hackers no longer exist. Heck, that's how _I_ got started in programming!!! My point was (and is) that the majority of ST owners are not hackers. Atari, with its lean resources must use support who it can... professional developers and end users. People caught in the middle are unfortunately left to fend for themselves. Hopefully, Atari can come up with some reasonable guidelines for professional developers so that the information they have may be freely shared with the hackers who want it. In the meantime, I and other Atari engineers will do what we can to give out what information we can here on the nets, despite the fact that it gets more distorted the longer it's out there. Sigh. -- ||| Ken Badertscher (ames!atari!kbad) ||| Atari R&D System Software Engine / | \ #include <disclaimer>
kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) (01/16/90)
And again... etelree@dutrun.UUCP (C. van Reeuwijk) writes: | Thus, I strongly disagree with Ken (was it Ken?) who thinks that | there would be no market for this. What I originally posted was that it is not incumbent upon _Atari_ to publish hacker-oriented books. I agree that there is a market. I would like nothing more than to see some developers work with Atari to publish some technically oriented books. I too think there's money to be made - but Atari itself, I think, would be better off concentrating on end user and professional developer support. -- ||| Ken Badertscher (ames!atari!kbad) ||| Atari R&D System Software Engine / | \ #include <disclaimer>