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- From: jking@nmt.edu ('Admiral JC')
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Last time on this one
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.031349.21351@nmt.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 03:13:49 GMT
- Article-I.D.: nmt.1993Jan12.031349.21351
- References: <H.ea.7tZUy7WdW&k@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> <1iobpvINN79q@golem.wcc.govt.nz> <H.ea.0kgtRS0BsQs@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
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- In article <H.ea.0kgtRS0BsQs@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca writes:
- >
- >Which is precisely why I'm looking into the other alternatives. Why is
- >it that EVERYONE assumes DOS when you say PC? As Dave Bagget's pointed
- >out, you can put any one of a HALF-DOZEN or more operating systems on a
- >clone... most of them will co-exist quite nicely, allowing you to quit
- >OS/2 (or Windoze or whatever) and reboot in unix with X.
- >
- >--
- >-------------------========================================-------------------
- >Chris Herborth
- >cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
-
- Er, even though I've been quietly watching all this, I have to toss out
- a point. Everyone assumes MS-DOS on the PC for pretty much the same reason
- everyone says GEM on the Atari.... The comparison is not exact but is fair.
- MS-DOS (perhaps running Windows) is still pretty much the minimum you can get
- by with on the PC. GEM is the minimum for the ST. You can add NeoDesk or
- whatever to GEM in much the same fashion you add Windows to MS-DOS.
-
- (I may be wrong on this but isn't MS-Windows an application that runs
- ontop of DOS? Much like GEM runs on top of TOS?)
-
- In any case, my point is mainly that if you allow all PC/Clone OS/s and
- GUI's into the arguement, it is probably fair to use all the Atari alternatives
- as well....
-
-
- Another idea to think about is the concept of "sunk cost". The money
- I have spent on my Atari system is gone. I can't get it back - it does not
- in any way figure into whether or not I should buy an IBM. I might like to
- buy CORALDraw, but the additional cost of the new computer makes it prohibitive to me. It would actually be easier to by Avant Vector at $400-$500.
- THe point of this is that it seems we are argueing apples and oranges
- now and then. There is a difference between scraping your Atari system for
- an IBM (which I cannot right now concieve of doing) or by an IBM instead of
- an Atari (which I might do, if the cicumstances were different). This is
- actually a problem for the Atari world since by and large only the first case
- leads to new Atari Users. Atari needs to find some way of bringing the second
- kind of choice back to their side of the equation. Which the Falcon may or
- may not do. (It all depends on whether they (Atari) can break into some sort
- of new market and stay there.
-
- I've said too much already....
-
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