Re: Addressing home-made adapter cards

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <3b9m6m$29rn@seminole.gate.net>,
Steve Reeves <stever@gate.net> wrote:
> 
> Mike Westerfield mentioned on GEnie that he was trying to get
> permission from Apple to reprint the toolbox refs.

That would be good.

> I would like to see an update to that old Addison-Wesley electronic
> reference (what was it called, Programmer's Companion?).

Programmer's Online Companion.  The first reference I can find to it
in old APDAlogs is Winter 1989.  The price then was $49.95, and it
didn't sound like it did much.  It was described as a CDA that takes
150k of memory and saves you having to type in toolbox calls.  It
didn't say anything about _documenting_ the calls.

I think a CDA is probably the best way to source on-line
documentation, since most programming tools run in text mode and
aren't in an environment that allows easy application switching.  The
CDA would have to access a disk file containing the documentation - no
way do I want a large amount of precious RAM wasted on large indexes
and/or text.  (It is bad enough having both Nifty List and GSBug
keeping a full list of toolbox call names in memory.)
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David Empson
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