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- From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: So what does this mean to us ?
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 10:07:07 +0100
- Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne
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- References: <1h78n5INNohd@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> <9212222830@ritz.mordor.com>
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- Christopher, why do you use "OS/2> " as a quote string? I don't
- think it's a good idea to use quote strings which are six (!)
- characters long. It's an utterly useless waste of bandwidth, and
- it considerably lowers the signal to noise ratio of your
- postings, as those nonsense strings are 100% noise. Plus, if many
- people developed such habits, line lengths would rapidly approach
- infinity after being quoted for a few times...
-
- In <9212222830@ritz.mordor.com> ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz) writes:
-
- >Jan T. Kim (aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de) wrote:
-
- >OS/2> Windows NoThanx etc. are not among them. Regarding Macs, if you
- >OS/2> say their OS is smooth you must have taken a very superficial
- >OS/2> look at it. I agree, the OS "looks and feels" rather neat, but
- >OS/2> beyond that surface there are nightmares and loads of weird stuff
- >OS/2> buried. Beware.
-
- >More than TOS??? Hehe, let's get some perspective here. MacOS is
- >a dream compared to the daggers you'll find hidden all over TOS.
-
- A dream, maybe. A nightmare, to be more precise. At least, that's
- what I call an OS which doesn't provide anything like a function
- to save the desktop, but instead insists on presenting you with
- the mess you left last time. I don't want an OS that will
- suddenly ask me to insert a disk which I have forgotten about
- since long. I hate to be constantly worried about large amounts
- of data that may not yet have been written to disks and will be
- lost should the system hang. On a more "expert" level, the weird
- shuffling about and purging the Mac does with its resources is
- utterly brain-damaged, and actually even worse than a garbage
- collection on a C64. And so on and so on... this much may suffice
- for now.
-
- >OS/2> Also, remember that there are a lot of different things pepole
- >OS/2> may want to do with their computer. If someone just wants to run
- >OS/2> a word processor, a spreadsheet and a graphics program, he can do
- >OS/2> that on a PC running Windows or on a Mac, despite all the horrors
- >OS/2> buried in them. Even more, a Mac or PC may actually suit such a
- >OS/2> person's need better than an Atari. But if someone wants to do
- >OS/2> some programming too, he will probably be much better off with an
- >OS/2> Atari.
-
- >And use what development tools?
-
- For me, GFA basic has worked well until now. Other than that,
- there's Pure C, Pure pascal, gcc, g++...
-
- Greetinx, Jan
-
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