pietrzak@solarium.CWRU.EDU (John Pietrzak) (09/30/89)
I enjoy spending friday nights reading these comments: In article <45e9895f.71d0@apollo.HP.COM> rehrauer@apollo.COM (Steve Rehrauer) writes: (stuff deleted) > >Since when has hardware been the only important factor? TOS is junk. >GEM is near-junk in its present buggy ST incarnation. No, that's not >fair I guess; TOS & GEM are "priced almost appropriately" -- howzzat? >You should pick your hardware based largely on what it will run that >you wish to run. Why else would bazillions of people still choose to >buy XT/AT-clones (price aside :) ? > Yup, you're right on the ball, Steve. You should also mention that MS-Dos is ancient and tired. OS/2 has no software support and changes from day to day. Mac's finder is slow and anti-programmers. Unix is the epitome of unfriendly. Why do people even try to put an operating system on computers? >IBM/NEC/Zenith and Apple >>> OWN <<< the portable market in this country. I'd say that Apple would have had to already marketed a few portable machines for them to own any portion of the portable market, although they are in a good position to sell quite a few in the near future. >[ I find it helps to think of Atari as a European company >that builds for Europe, sells in Europe, and just coincidentally happens >to live in the U.S. ] ... > >Forget "cold fusion"; if we could >only bottle "Atari-owner loyalty" there wouldn't BE an energy crisis. :) >(So speaks an ex-Atari-enthusiast.) Looks like atari's support for their own machines has axed another user. Beginning to sound like a broken record. >-- >>>> "Aaiiyeeeee! Death from above!" <<< | Steve Rehrauer > Fone: (508)256-6600 x6168 | Apollo Computer, a > ARPA: rehrauer@apollo.hp.com | division of Hewlett-Packard >"Look, Max: 'Pressurized cheese in a can'. Even _WE_ wouldn't eat that!" Just hate to see a flame without throwing some fuel on it. J. P.
mike@pixar.UUCP (Mike Russell) (11/16/89)
Please lets quench the chest beating and Atari flaming, for a while anyway, and stick to straight ahead questions and info about the Atari ST. Hmmm? -- Mike Russell ucbvax!pixar!mike When the vark gets ard, the ard get varking.
carter@cat34.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) (02/02/91)
Thanks for the flames people! Well, let me state, that as far as I am concerned Atari is heading the right direction with their STe. I really enjoy my machine(Mega STe), otherwise I wouldn't be writing about my current situation. PLUS might I add, the new desktop (TOS 2.05) is nothing short of VERY USEFUL. I am very pleased with it. But for that matter on to someting a little less trivial: Does anybody KNOW where I can get information about the internals on the MegaSTe? I have so much I want to do, yet can't do it because I actually don't have the faintest idea where everything is? --Gregory