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- From: dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: I'm with Dave (was Re: A letter to Dave Bagget)t
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 19:49:02 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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- In article <1i1lkpINNme0@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> molin@ptb.cl.msu.edu (Michael Olin) writes:
- >I understand what you're saying about Atari and support... But Intel???
- >GAG ME WITH A CLI! Intels are dinosaurs, there's no question about it.
-
- Well, the dinosaurs can outperform everything Atari currently has out
- there, so I don't know what you mean. I'd rather have a dinosaur than
- a fossil, personally. Besides, one of the biggest arguments I see here
- is "my computer does what I want, so I'm happy with it and don't need
- anything else." By calling Intel machines dinosaurs, you make it clear
- that you don't believe this (otherwise why not be happy with a 1985 DOS
- machine?), so explain how you could possibly be better off with a 1985
- Atari Fossil than you would be with a 1993 Intel-based clone than runs,
- oh, a hundred times faster.
-
- >And the biggest stink about 'em is MS-DOS. As I've said many wheres else,
- >if my cat shits on the living room carpet, I don't spray perfume on it.
- >I clean it up. Ya know what Windoze is? Perfume! Perfume on stink.
-
- Oh gee, and the GEM desktop is so much better. Give me a break. So
- Windows is a piece of shit -- don't use it! If you don't like DOS, get
- 4dos; it has command line completion, aliases, and lots of other good
- stuff that "real" shells have. "DOS" machines run more operating
- systems than any other computers these days. Don't bash the hardware
- because you don't like one of the operating systems.
-
- >Now....Give me one of those new '486/100MHz machines and give it a UNIX
- >o.s., and THEN we're heading in a reasonable direction!
-
- Right, so why do you dismiss the clones when you know they can run
- better operating systems than Atari computers?
-
- Dave Baggett
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