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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!darekm
- From: darekm@microsoft.com (Darek Mihocka)
- Subject: Re: Yes, SXs are dogs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.200036.21859@microsoft.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 20:00:36 GMT
- Organization: BraSoft
- References: <18JAN93.17454267@cc4.crl.aecl.ca>
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- In article <18JAN93.17454267@cc4.crl.aecl.ca> csullogg@cc4.crl.aecl.ca writes:
- >I have a 386 @ 40 MHz with an AMAZING SVGA monitor - it sits idle
- >while I run Pagestream or Calamus on my 8 MHz MegaST. Why, because
- >I have struggled to find well priced, easy to use PC software with
- >a consistent user interface that does not consume 200 MBytes of
- >disk space to do the type of work I do on my ST so effortlessly
- >and I could not.
-
- So bag the ST altogether and spend $229 on the Gemulator. It will
- allow you to run your Pagestream and take advantage of the VGA
- graphics as well. You can't do that on an ST at any cost other than
- of course blowing more bucks on a Falcon or TT just to get better
- graphics.
-
- - Darek
-
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- | Darek Mihocka. net: darekm@microsoft |
- | Views expressed are my own, I think. |
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