NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/sys/atari/st/21130

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From: [e-mail] (ted croft brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PC Bigotrynex (ADVOCACY)
Date: 27 Jan 1993 23:54:42 -0500
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:

>You work it out.  That's EXACTLY what his statements mean.
>
>Of course, it's not what he meant - he just loves flaming.  Roll on c.s.a.a!

I'm wondering how much of the recent flame fests are just that...people
who love to argue.

I mean the simple facts (as I see them) are:
    - '486 machines are getting mighty cheap nowdays
    - if most of us *really* thought they were better we'd be posting
        in comp.sys.ibm.pc or comp.os.os2.misc
    - The Falcon is a nice computer with some neat things especially
        in the sound department (if you're a musician
        you're probably salivating....)
    - Just because it's good doen't mean a thing
    - The Falcon still has plenty of hardships against it:
        o Atari makes it and people pick on them
        o Atari makes it (and they market so well....)
        o Those '486 boxes get cheaper all the time
        o Apple is actually starting to sell computers at only
              slightly outragous prices (LCIII 4/80 1379 ?!?, got
              this off one of the mac bases so who knows)
        o Hey the price on that Falcon looks a little high too
              (Assuming a 4/65 is $1300, sure hope that's closer to
               $1100 than $1300)
        o Atari makes it (so important it's in here thrice!)

Of course the main point is that Atari (and the Atari community) just can't
put our heads in the sand and ignore PC and Macs ( *warning! cheap shot
coming*)(But we can ignore the Amiga).  I haven't seen some of the new crop
of Atari software but I haven't heard of anything that quite competes with
Excel or Word let alone Quicken and the host of CD-ROM stuff that abounds
for the PC and the Mac.

But, there also seems to be some neat stuff coming out for the Falcon
Blackmail, a Genlocking Video Titling thingy, better MIDI software, and
better paint programs.  I wonder if anyone is doing ISDN on the DSP.
(It's possible because it's done on the NeXT with *less* DSP memory).
There's also the rumor of a Falcon 040 and a CD-ROM Falcon (which might
be able to run CD-I stuff).  But I guess we really should try to go
vapor for vapor with the PC/Mac world.  If you think Atari is the master of
RSN you haven't *ever* listened to Microsoft (You know what NT stands for?
Not Today, Not Tommorrow.  Next Tuesday.....)


Oh golly.  How can one post so much mindless drivel in one night?  Easy
when you're stuck in a lab with *nothing* to do, you post drivel right?

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