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- From: dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Last time on this one
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 07:33:20 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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- In article <1iobpvINN79q@golem.wcc.govt.nz> wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
- >> OS/2 2.x? NeXTstep '486 (when it comes out)?
- >
- >And what are the minimum system requirements for that!? How much RAM
- >does it Need!?
-
- A losing argument. No one complains that the ST's TOS requires more
- than 4K of RAM, but in 1978 it would have been a real problem.
- Likewise, one or two megs is no big deal now that SIMM prices are so
- low. You will sound sillier with every passing month.
-
- >And doesn't NEED a Hard Drive to run!!
-
- Big deal. Get a hard drive anyway. They're cheap.
-
- >OS/2 and windows are HUGE
-
- Huge by 1985 (ST creation date) standards, maybe. Not by "real OS"
- standards. You really have to try using a real OS sometime before you
- pass judgement on these things.
-
- >and VERY expensive
-
- That's a GOOD one. $50 is *real* tough to manage for an OS, yeah.
-
- >the ST's operating system
- >comes built in - you don't have to pay for it!
-
- Right, and consequently you have to pay $75 to upgrade the OS. That
- is, every 3 years when they fix the pending 100 bugs in TOS.
-
- >MS-Doze is the standard on IBM clones, and it is VERY under-productive!
-
- What, exactly, do you DO with your ST that would be so much more
- unproductively done on a PC? And in terms of calls, TOS is more
- minimal than DOS is. And there IS no CLI for the ST, as far as Atari
- is concerned. Only the (snicker) GEM desktop.
-
- Dave Baggett
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