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- From: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Message-ID: <H.ea.vmmCYe4H5P6@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- Organization: InterZONE Design
- Subject: Re: Porky pig.
- References: <5JAN93.09425752@cc4.crl.aecl.ca><C0Furt.I67@news.cso.uiuc.edu>,
- <H.ea.0kgtRS0BsQs@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- <1993Jan11.021216.13462@bsu-ucs>
- Reply-To: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep 5 1992
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:48:52 EST
- Lines: 38
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- In <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.
-
- Well, _I_ program in GNU C++ (ok, so I'm just learning...), and _I_ do
- rendering, and _I_ do DTP... and I'm getting flamed by some of the
- other posters for daring to suggest the ST might not be up to snuff for
- what I do.
-
- BTW, check out misc.forsale.computers for used hard drive prices. I
- bought a 50M Quantum for $80 a few months ago...
-
- > 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.
-
- How exactly does one pirate a CD-ROM? 650M hard drives aren't exactly
- cheap... ;-)
-
- From what I've read, it's a beta of OS/2 2.1... MS sold millions of
- copies of the Windows 3.1 beta (Windows 3.0, remember that one?)...
-
- > 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.
- > Good luck!
-
- Precisely why I'm trying to collect as much info as possible... I
- figure I'm pretty immune to the clone sales droids, but my fiancee's
- father isn't...
-
- --
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- Chris Herborth
- cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
-