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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Bob_BobR_Retelle
- From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon030, resolutions, TRUE color, and DSP
- Message-ID: <72179@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 01:10:56 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- Odisseas Kosmatos lists lots of "reasons" why PCs are the
- Scum of the Earth..
-
- Sure.. but can your Falcon do *anything*...?
-
- Without software, you've got a high-tech (and expensive)
- paperweight..
-
- Meanwhile, that poor, misguided PC owner is happily computing
- using his lousy, clunky, "everyone knows" has problems PC to
- do exactly what he wants it to do.
-
- He had to pay $89 more to get 11 voice FM synthesis music, with
- VOC sampled voice support.. so what..? It works.. NOW..
-
- He had to pay $19 more to get a mouse.. so what..? It works..
- NOW...
-
- He's got an IDE drive.. so what? That's what the Falcon has too!
-
- The point that seems to be universally missed here is that if
- someone decides that they want to use a computer *NOW*, instead
- of waiting for the ever present Atari "RSN", they CAN do it..
-
- If someone decides they want to get some actual work done NOW
- instead of waiting continually for the NEXT broken promise,
- why shouldn't they..?
-
- Why wait forever for the "ultimate" pie in the sky dream, when
- you can get a REAL computer NOW..?
-
- (OK, maybe some of us can afford to wait forever for Atari to get
- their act together.. maybe someday they'll actually come up with
- a killer machine that *everybody* just HAS to HAVE... but until
- then, why spite yourself just to make Atari feel good...????)
-
- BobR
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