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- From: dlk0ms9s@umiami.ir.miami.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Yes, SXs are dogs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.231335.14371@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 23:13:35 EST
- References: <18JAN93.17454267@cc4.crl.aecl.ca> <1993Jan21.200036.21859@microsoft.com>
- Organization: Univ of Miami IR
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- In article <1993Jan21.200036.21859@microsoft.com>, darekm@microsoft.com (Darek Mihocka) writes:
- > 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
-
- Not to flame, but there is nothing liek the real thing... And at $229, w/o
- ROMS, I could get another Ste...
-
- Mark Santora
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