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- From: dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Porky pig.
- Message-ID: <1is1dpINN4bq@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 14:49:29 GMT
- References: <C0Furt.I67@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <H.ea.0kgtRS0BsQs@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> <1993Jan11.021216.13462@bsu-ucs>
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- In article <1993Jan11.021216.13462@bsu-ucs> 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
- >My thoughts to that point (thinking more generally) are that MOST people don't
- >NEED to program in GNU C++. This places a hard-drive back into the nice-but-
- >still-a-luxury catagory. Sorry, it's still $$ (and a maybe a smattering of
- >nostalgia) that holds me out of the clone-realm. I'll probably cross the
- >threshhold some time after a hard-drive for this ST costs more than a complete
- >clone system. And that's not likely to happen soon.
-
- I suppose the *computer* is still in a nice-but-still-a-luxury
- category, eh? Pencil and paper works JUST FINE, provided you're
- willing to wait. Such reactionary arugments are ridiculous. We're not
- talking about cutting edge stuff here; hard drives have ben standard
- for years now.
-
- >I believe someone said something about that being a beta copy, or unliscenced
- >or something. Of course pirating is not so unfamiliar to many clone users.
-
- Frankly, your generalizations only make it obvious that you'll find any
- excuse to criticize people who own clones or (gasp) just like them. I
- KNOW how cheap ST people are from painful personal experience, so don't
- talk to me about piracy, not paying for shareware, etc. YOU are part
- of the reason the ST market sucks so much I have to leave it
- completely. YOU are the one who says, "I can't pay $50 for OS
- software." PC people pay for software in enough numbers that they
- support massive development efforts. Both good and bad software comes
- out of these, but the market is certainly strong.
-
- >Anywho, it sounds like you're on the right track. Buy what you need.
- >Use will-power. Buy only what you need. The clone-realm is prone to
- >draw a man to gadget hell. Look at them, look at what Atari can do,
- >look at what MAC can do.
-
- Atari's simply aren't competetive anymore. Face it, if you bought a
- new machine, would it be an ST? If so, then you really are deluded
- beyond all hope. Apple's soon not going to even HAVE a 68000 machine
- in their line -- they're just too darn slow by today's standards.
-
- Dave Baggett
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