ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) (05/27/91)
This is a flame against Motorola's documentation department and their #%$%ing 68xxx manuals. Did you know that Motorola have brought out new editions of their 680x0 manuals, which no longer have information about the instruction sets in them? Instead, this has been compiled into a new manual, the "68000 Family Programmer's Reference". All well and good, except that a) the change happened without any warning, and b) APDA have no knowledge of the new manual. A friend of mine has been trying to get hold of the instruction set information for an assignment he's doing. First he ordered the 68030 manual (on my recommendation), and was unpleasantly surprised to receive a newer, thinner edition than the one I previously got. An exchange of faxes with APDA led us to believe that they still had the 3rd edition of the 68020 manual, which has the instruction set information in it. A copy arrives this afternoon, and guess what? It's the *fourth* edition now, and there's no instruction set information in it! To their credit, APDA have been giving us absolutely amazing service recently (my last order arrived just three days after I faxed it--and over a weekend, yet!), which is why I'm more inclined to blame Motorola for the screwup. I can just see APDA hiring someone to check out every new edition of every product they receive, just in case the vendor pulls a fast one like this... Lawrence D'Oliveiro fone: +64-71-562-889 Computer Services Dept fax: +64-71-384-066 University of Waikato electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz Hamilton, New Zealand 37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+12:00 This line intentionally left unfunny.