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- From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon030, resolutions, TRUE color, and DSP
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 23:42:57 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- David Paschall-Zimbel writes:
-
- >Just a quick question here, Bob. What computer do you use most of the time?
- >This includes those times you're online answering CompuServe questions about
- >the Atari ST line...
-
- Gotta wonder a little about the relevance of the question.. but
- as David is so predictable, I can just hear the "must be personal
- problems with Atari Corp" comments coming...
-
- Well, the answer is.. it depends on what I want to do..
- (the classic "decide what you want a computer to do before you
- decide on what computer to get")
-
- Right now my XT is re-compressing some GIF pictures, the PS/2
- is waiting for me to get back to playing Eye of the Beholder II,
- and my ST is busy composing this message.
-
- When I want to display those GIFs, I'll use the VGA of the PS/2,
- and when I want to program a little, I'll use the Hercules XT
- system for its larger hard drive. Llamatron belongs to the ST..
- I played it on the PS/2, and it truely sucks.
-
- Then there's the mini-tower with its '286 motherboard and pieces
- all over the room, waiting to be assembled. What it doesn't know
- is that the '286 board will never be installed, since '386DX
- boards have dropped in price so much. When that one is done,
- I'll be able to play Ultima Underworld and the other games that
- require the speed and memory.
-
- CompuServe..? That belongs to the ST.. I still haven't found
- a telecommunications program for any other computer platform
- that works as well, or meets my needs like Flash does. In fact,
- my ST is seldom ever turned off, since the capture buffer in
- Flash usually holds a megabyte or more of online sessions from
- all the boards and services I use. (The only exception is the
- Sierra Network, which only works with PCs for the time being).
-
- Oh.. and when I want to print out huge doc files, I use a VAX
- 8550 in a cluster of a dozen VAXes to use their high-speed
- lineprinters..
-
- But.. since most of my time is spent online somewhere, the
- answer to the original question would have to be that I use my
- ST more often than any of the others..
-
- Any other questions..?
-
- BobR
-