rbp@investor.UUCP (Bob Peirce) (09/30/86)
At the risk of starting a religious war, I would appreciate any MAIL on
the best system to start an eight year old on which also has enough
power to be useful to me and my older children. I think this boils
down to the Amiga, Atari ST and the Mac.
The user interface should be very intuitive and easy to use. There
should be interesting games and graphics programs as well as powerful
software for editing term papers and other documents. I would want
communications software to call my Unix system at the office and
transfer files or run programs. It goes without saying that a Unix
compatible C compiler would be required eventually and with that there
should be a good development environment. I would really like to see a
debugger like the dbxtools program I recently saw running on a Sun --
Wow! An actual Unix port would be super down the road a bit.
I don't need much to start with, but later we might want a hard disk and
more RAM. I have heard about some neat stuff for digitizing and
manipulating photographs and video signals. Who runs that?
I would most like to hear from people who have experience with two or
all three of these machines rather than just one. I would appreciate
mail since I don't usually read these groups.
Thanks for any help you can send.
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Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA
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