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User interfaces

    27-Aug-93 13:11:16
Sb: #111613-User interfaces
Fm: Dale Larson 76702,654
To: Syndesis 76004,1763
So what you're saying is that the documentation focused on stuff you think which deserve to be cut, so that must be what the engineers are doing, so engineers deserve to be cut. Your premise is an opinion you are entitled to. Your conclusion is poorly drawn. The engineers spend a small percentage of their time writing docs. The used to get a lot of help from CATS. They tried to write on topics which weren't documented well on the theory that every part of the system, no matter how "important to the bottom line" should be documented so that nothing in third party development is left to chance of necessity. CATS, by the way, is mostly gone (from a dozen or two to, I think, five). So if you're objection was that developer support and programmer documentation was superfulous (sp) to the bottom line, then you're judgement does appear to have been shared by Commodore management in the face of lean times. Dale Larson – An Amiga Software Engineer with some time on his hands.