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- From: bgilbert@cs.washington.edu (Ben Gilbert)
- Subject: ADVOCACY: Re: a blurb
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.201902.17764@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 20:19:02 GMT
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- In article <1itkq7INNb1l@life.ai.mit.edu> dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan11.205852.13486@bsu-ucs> 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
- >>Second of all, I'll ask you not to be my finance advisor. I'm a
- >>quite-typical college student with no spare money.
- >
- >Again: don't buy the Ferrari if you can't buy the wiper blades. So
- >you've overinvested in your hardware and now you can't buy any
- >software. Is there any other way to slice it? BTW, you're not saying
- >anything unfamiliar to an Atari developer when you talk about not
- >having money.
-
- Overinvested in hardware, Dave? I hardly think this holds for most current
- owners of ST/STe machines. Four years ago I bought my 520STFM for less than
- $400. What kind of MS-DOS clone could I have gotten for $400?
-
- I will of course agree that the price/performance ratio has been lost by
- Atari lately, when it comes to comparisons with MS-DOS machines, but I don't
- think it's an utter waste of money to buy Atari computers -- there are still
- plenty of things you can do very well with them, and the software just
- keeps getting better. If you need me to enumerate those I'd be happy to,
- but anyone who's been keeping up with Atari software lately knows there are
- some very good products out there.
-
- Would I like to have better graphics and a faster computer? Of course, anyone
- would. That's the main reason I'm going to get a Falcon030 -- it represents a
- newer, better version of a computer I've used for years. Contrary to what
- Dave has been saying, I don't think the Atari OS is seriously "flawed" or
- unworkable for programmers/developers. I would agree that Atari should
- get their act together as far as marketing/support goes, but to me this isn't
- the primary reason why I buy a computer. I know how to use a lot of
- different systems (MS-DOS, UNIX, Mac, etc.) and the one I like the most is
- still my Atari. We've been through all this before -- if you know what
- your computer can and can't do, and you're satisfied with that, then that's
- great. For me, the Falcon030 represents a viable choice for my next
- computer, and I have no plans on switching to anything else (well, except
- maybe a TT :-).
-
- >
- >Dave Baggett
- >--
- >dmb@ai.mit.edu MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- >ADVENTIONS: interactive fiction (text adventures) for the 90's!
- >dmb@ai.mit.edu *** Compu$erve: 76440,2671 *** GEnie: ADVENTIONS
-
- Regards,
-
- --
- Ben Gilbert e-mail : bgilbert@cs.washington.edu
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Washington
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