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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Path: sparky!uunet!sae!hyperion!malay
- From: malay@sae.com (Bob Malay)
- Subject: Re: Hello, GW! (was Re: Good Bye Atari)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.154326.27649@sae.com>
- Sender: news@sae.com
- Reply-To: malay@sae.com
- Organization: Template Software
- References: <1992Dec11.131347.8384@chpc.utexas.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:43:26 GMT
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- In article 8384@chpc.utexas.edu, ewal235@chpc.utexas.edu (Rob McMullen) writes:
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- >I'm curious. I suspect (correct me if I'm wrong) that a lot of the
- >current owners of STs have owned 8Bits in the past. (At least folks in
- >North America. I don't know how popular 8Bits got elsewhere.) How many
- >of us consider sticking with Atari out of some amount of loyalty to the
- >company?
- >
- >My question is: Why do we do this to ourselves? :-) We must be eternal
- >optimists, or delight in writing all of our own software. The Atari net
- >community does make up (somewhat) for the lack of commercial software.
- >Of course, I'd like to play new things like Ultima Underworld. At least
- >we got Lemmings!
- >
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- Why? Well, because I dislike the PC/MSDOS/Microsoft setup and because the
- Macintosh and Sun SPARC are a little out of my price range. So what is left?
- A NeXT box - still too expensive! Maybe an Amiga? I'll stick with the
- ST/STe/Falcon !
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- Bob Malay
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