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- From: 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: a blurb
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.015110.13461@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 06:51:10 GMT
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- Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's
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- >>And doesn't NEED a Hard Drive to run!!
- >
- > Big deal. Get a hard drive anyway. They're cheap.
-
- Say bud...if they're so cheap, why donl;t you mail me the money order for a new
- one? I don't happen to have the cash, nor, I would bet, do a lot of other
- people. I may guess this may be even more so in a smaller, foreign country.
- I'll keep my eye on the mail and continue to run my software from the RAMdisk
- so I won't be holding my breath.
-
- >>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.
-
- Up the amount of the money order, please.
-
- > 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.
-
- I'm still using very old version of TOS (1.2 I think) and have no plans for
- spending money to upgrade it. BTW, I see you suddenly got a little tight with
- the purse-strings....hmm.
-
- >>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.
-
- What's the point to trying to get a PC put together the right way to do what
- I want it to do, for less cost than my MEGA ST4? Too bad more people didn't
- find out about ST's when I did. There'd probably be less people hell-bent on
- a hard drive/the latest-greatest 'x86 PC/super-workhorse/more-than-they-
- need/1000. And I have no qualms with GEM.
-
- Oh well, you and the Jones' have fun competing with each other. I'm gonna see
- if I can get something done here.
-
- P.S. Why are the only people who actively promote the clones _I know_, the
- ones who are able to hook up with _pirate copies_ of the hard-drive munching,
- processing-time gobbling software they rave about? I reckon a large number of
- people would sing a different song if they _had_ to play by the rules. Not to
- mention they wouldn't be able to afford to fill those bulging hard-drives their
- shiney new system sports.
-
- -Matt
-