kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) (11/30/89)
ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko) writes: | With our tos 1.4 upgrade, the release notes, as i stated [...] | were shrunken down photocopies which are not all that readable. IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL REGISTERED U.S. ATARI DEVELOPERS: IF YOU ARE A REGISTERED DEVELOPER AND YOU DO NOT HAVE THE FINAL RAINBOW TOS RELEASE NOTES, CALL GAIL AT 408-745-2568. There was a questionnaire sent out some months ago, and if you did not send back that questionnaire, you are no longer listed as a registered developer. That was supposed to be clear from the questionnaire. Further, we are starting a re-registration program, which will be free of charge to registered developers. Call Gail for more info. The photocopied docs which came with the _developer release_ of Rainbow TOS are NOT the final Rainbow TOS Release Notes. They were preliminary and were marked as such. The final version comes in an Atari binder, and was professionally produced by our technical documentation department. If you do not have the final version by now, assume that you have been purged from the list of registered developers. Do not send me Email, and do not post a followup to this message, because those actions will not get you on the list. CALL GAIL. Now that that's out of the way... | why weren't real jumper pins used [for ROM jumpers] anyways?? It's a lot easier for parts insertion machines to insert 0 ohm resistors than jumpers. And jumpers would require verification that they were inserted the correct way. That's what I've been told, anyways. Regarding how developer kits are being released, I haven't seen an actual developer kit in quite a while (since I got mine, in fact, when I came to work here at Atari). So without information to the contrary, I'm assuming that they still come boxed and 3-hole-perforated for inclusion in the binders of your choice (I've got 5 big binders holding my kit). As far as the condition of the docs, they shouldn't be torn up or hard to read - the originals from which the docs are printed these days are in much better shape than years ago. If you got a bad set, please contact Gail. -- ||| Ken Badertscher (ames!atari!kbad) ||| Atari R&D System Software Engine / | \ #include <disclaimer>