FXDDR@ALASKA.BITNET (05/09/87)
Date: Fri, 8 May 87 22:53 ADT From: <FXDDR@ALASKA.BITNET> Subject: Last yok on a silly thread To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu X-Original-To: "info-atari16@score.stanford.edu", FXDDR Deepest apologies for adding to the silliness of amigoids trashing the ST, but I would like to add a few brief observations. 1) I have the dubious pleasure of reading a lot of different newsgroups. On most any of them there is a substantial amount of traffic discussing bugs and quirks in the os or hardware. Conclusion: there are no perfect micros. 2) Claims that the ST is only suited for games are pretty silly considering that much of my thesis work in space physics has been done with the ST mostly using off-the-shelf commercial and pd software (Uniterm, Degas Elite, Publishing Partner, etc). I also have games to keep me sane. 3) Our famous buggy os really hasn't hampered the work...most of the bugs seem to be fairly rare in practice. (The 40-folder bug sounds the worst, but I've managed to get along with floppies and minimal folders per floppy.) In c15 months of use, I hit the underscore bug once, while fiddling with RCS. The only time I've lost substantial data was when we had a power failure and I hadn't saved my work recently. I guess it just depends on how serious one is about getting the job done. Probably can't do it all with pd software, or by programming everything yourself (unless you have incredible amounts of free time). Spend a little money, use a little imagination...amazing things happen. Sit around grinding axes, compare this machine to that machine, try to out- brag your friends...cheapshots from netnits result. Don FXDDR@ALASKA.BITNET