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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: 12 Jan 1993 02:51:28 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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- In article <1isna6INNonm@golem.wcc.govt.nz> wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
- >Don't bother, the guy is obviously thick, saying there is no CLI for
- >the ST, (ever heard of UNIX!? And the hundreds of other PD/shareware ones)
-
- Look Steve, get a grip. You know I know what I'm talking about here;
- I've written programs for the ST, remember? There's no Atari CLI;
- they're all third party products. In other words, there is no
- equivalent to DOS in the Atari world -- as far as ATARI is concerned
- there IS no CLI. That's all I meant, OK? And most programmers know
- that you can get a lot more work done with a CLI than you can with WIMP
- interfaces anyway.
-
- Second, the ST doesn't run Unix. It can't run Unix because it isn't
- capable of doing virutal memory. (It does run Minix, though; I'll
- give you that they're similar.)
-
- Finally, if you're going to followup a post of mine, you could at least
- insult me by name.
-
- >Hard drives are not 'cheap', $250 is a lot of money for poor folks like
- >myself! (For a decent drive....)
-
- Yet you (pl.) expect us to put in the X thousand hours required to
- write something Game Workbench when you can't pay the $200 or so it
- costs to justify making it?
-
- >So GEM is not a Real OS is it!? Damn, what have I been using for the
- >last 5 years then!?
-
- An early, buggy version of a poorly designed single-tasking OS.
-
- Dave Baggett
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