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- From: kosmatoo@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Kosmatos Odisseas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon030, resolutions, TRUE color, and DSP
- Summary: Yeah Yeah Yeah
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.125005.3874@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 12:50:05 GMT
- References: <1h2r5bINNqv5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec21.013725.5791@cc.umontreal.ca> <72179@cup.portal.com>
- Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
- Organization: Universite de Montreal
- Lines: 54
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- In article <72179@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
- >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...
-
- I understand your narrow-minded point of view, and cannot flat out say
- it is a load of rubbish, but let's not get off the original topic, which
- was that the Falcon has nothing going for it. I've shown at least twice
- my reasons for why I think so, and we've seen your opposite reasoning too.
-
- The original point was that the $799 PC was not much of a performer,
- and that you would have to spend more money to get it to do
- anything, whenever the need arose.
-
- >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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- =*= Odisseas Kosmatos =*= "Cul bien vide, tete plein d'idees."
- =*= kosmatoo@jsp.umontreal.ca =*=
- =*= shammer@mafalda.math.mcgill.ca =*=
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