colas@avahi.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo) (08/04/90)
To try to compensate for my start of a flame war on the subject: Subject: Re: Time for a New Computer: Should it be an Atari ST? I offered to collect & post positive messages on the use of STs. So far I have receive two of them... Here they are: ------- Forwarded Messages Date: Tue, 24 Jul 90 09:47:04 -0400 From: "Anubis" <cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu> Subject: Re: Time for a New Computer: Should it be an Atari ST? Organization: UF CIS Department This is in reply to your request for experiences with the ST. I find my 1040 ST to be one one of the best general-purpose computers around. It suits all my needs. I use if it for Desktop publishing, being a Journalism major, and I use it for Telecommunications. I own several different compilers, and find the Atari's OS easy to use. I don't like MS-DOS, and I don't like IBM. Atari was the only other alternative, as far as I was concerned. To be honest, if I was to buy anohter computer today, it would be an Amiga--but this is only because of the declining support the 1040 is getting. - -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=That is not dead which may eternal lie-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= * Christoper Roth * "Machines have no * InterNet : cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu * Conscience..." =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=Yet with strange eons even death may die-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------- Message 2 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 90 12:36:32 -0400 From: John Pietrzak <pietrzak@SCL.CWRU.Edu> Subject: Re: Time for a New Computer: Should it be an Atari ST? Organization: Smith Undergrad Lab, CWRU, Cleve. OH In article <8501@mirsa.inria.fr> you write: > >Sorry if I sounded this way. I exposed also the reasons that made our >organization still buy STs, and the reasons why I use mine. > >My point was: I think the ST could have been a general purpose computer, >"the apple II of the late 80s", but now it is well adapted for some uses, but >not for all. > >I offer to "repair" my posting by summarizing and posting a list of relevant >uses for a ST. Mail me your experiences, I will post them. I'm sorry that you feel so badly about the Atari ST; and although you don't feel that the machine is a general purpose machine, it has suited my purposes just fine over the last few years. First, I use my computer for programming; I'm in college working towards a degree in computer science, and the programming environment of the ST is very comfortable to me. We use GNU C on the Suns and Vaxen for our courses, and the ability to run that very same compiler on my own machine is extremely useful. I also use Mark William's C quite often. Second, I use the ST for word processing; WordPerfect is quite adequate at handling college-level project reports. I also have UltraScript and an HP Deskjet, which allows me to print professional looking reports with minimal effort from my own room. Last, I use my ST for limited desktop publishing. I create flyers for several undergraduate clubs with my own resources. The ability for me to afford all of these things and still go to college was why I chose the I chose the ST in the first place, and why I still have it today. John Pietrzak ------- End of Forwarded Messages -- Colas Nahaboo, Bull Research France -- Koala Project -- GWM X11 Window Manager colas@avahi.inria.fr Phone: (33) 93.65.77.70, Fax: (33) 93 65 77 66 INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, 2004, rte des Lucioles, 06565 Valbonne Cedex, FRANCE