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- From: wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Convince me to stick with Atari.
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- Date: 13 Jan 93 02:39:18 GMT
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- Although I may get rocks thrown at me...
- I have been using DOS computers for years, and have built a career out of them.
- I like IBM clones and DOS, but I am not blind to their weaknesses, some of
- which Atari sts do not share. I own a DOS clone and an STe, and am quite
- happy with each. Software availability is certainly weak for the ST, but
- then again systems software for the IBM is limited. DOS is nice, but
- has its limitations, Windows simply doesn't perform reliably, and OS/2
- is limited in performance, software abvailability, and distribution.
- (Personally, and I know more stones will be cast at me for writing this,
- I'd prefer Unix as an upgrade to DOS, over Windows or OS/2), DOS did have
- a chance to keep moving, but, thanx to Microscam, that never happened.
- Lastly, my experience has been that TOS with GEM runs much more reliably
- than DOS with Windows, for all the cool technological innovations that
- Windows has (tried) to deliver, like DLLs.
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