Short:        Amiga Dictionary in LaTeX format
Uploader:     sirvine waikato ac nz
Architecture: generic


This dictionary is \copyright 1993 by the Sirvex Foundation. You are permitted to make a single hardcopy copy of this document for your own use. You may not modify the document. Printed and bound copies of this dictionary are available from the author at the address given below for $25 (US) or $40 (NZ).

The main dictionary contains about 80 pages and the appendices contain about 50 pages.

This is a dictionary of terms, functions, acronyms, and abbreviations which are relevant to the Amiga. This dictionary is not a dictionary of computer science or computers in general. Nor is it a replacement for the ROM Kernel Reference Manuals or any other Amiga documentation.

The aim of the dictionary is to collect together various things which would normally have a user running to a variety of other sources.

Currently the dictionary is reasonably complete up to Workbench 1.3. Entries for Workbench 2.0 onwards are scarce at the moment. Currently included are entries for Amiga DOS commands, Amiga BASIC functions, C functions, Amiga library functions, Amiga device functions, printer codes, constants, and may other things. The C entries are biased towards SAS~C. If someone gives me permission and documentation I will add entries for other versions of C. Also, there is no mention of AMOS, C++, Pascal, and other languages at the moment since I don't have any of these, or documentation for them.

I am considering making entries for third party libraries in a manner similar to those of the native Amiga libraries. If anyone has written a library they wish to have mentioned in the dictionary please let me know.

As in any work of this size there are sure to be many errors. If you find an error please do not flame me. I can only work on this dictionary in my spare time, and I am definitely not an expert in all areas. I would, however, appreciate mail detailing the exact nature of any errors you find and I will endeavour to correct the error for future editions.

Any person who sends more than fifty definitions not currently in the dictionary will have their name included in an acknowledgements section if desired.

I can be contacted as

sirvine@waikato.ac.nz

or as

Sean A. Irvine
F10 / 5 Tralee Place
Hamilton
New Zealand