CSULLOGG@CRL.AECL.CA (06/12/91)
One netter asked about the MIPS on the TT. It's like the Mac commercial says, it's not how many MIPs but how useful the machine is. I have an ST at home and a TT at work. I also support PC users at work (they have COMPAQs). Both my ST and the TT make the COMPAQs and WINDOWS 3 look like real kludges. The COMPAQ users are always asking "Why is everything so SLOW!". You HAVE to experience WINDOWS 3 on a PC just to see how cumbersome and slow this is. As for price comparisons; a TT with 4 megs and VGA monitor is under $3000 Canadian dollars. A COMPAQ 386/33 with VGA is just under $5000. The TT looks like a good buy to me! Oh yeah, both have 50 meg drives. Another netter asked why the MegaSTE and TT take so long to boot; this is discussed in the manual. The quick fix is to hit the spacebar about 10 seconds after powering up. The other fix is to have a boot floppy with NOROACH (PD from Atari). I use the latter and have a 15 second delay set for the NOROACH pgm. Works great! Alyre Chiasson from UNB asked about Ataris and lasers. I have an HPLJII on my TT at work and an Atari SLM605 on my MegaST at home. The absolutely FASTEST thing going on the planet is CALAMUS on an ST or TT and printing to an Atari laser. Forget what people tell you if they do not work with both the HPLJII and the Atari laser on a day-to-day basis. For sheer speed, NOTHING can outperform the Atari laser. I am ordering a utility from a company in Germany. It will let me print to the SLM605 under Spectre emulation. This combo outguns the Mac to an Apple Laserwriter. All you have to do is try printing to an HPLJ under Spectre and you'll wish you had gone for the Atari laser. The HPLJ via the parallel or serial port printing MAC stuff is useless unless you add a postscript cartridge. By the time you do that, it's a lot more expensive than the Atari laser (which sells for $1299 in some places in Canada).