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- From: abaddon@supr.scm.liv.ac.uk (Kevin o donovan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: GEM.. what needs to be fixed, and soon!
- Message-ID: <ABADDON.92Sep1121112@suprenum.supr.scm.liv.ac.uk>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 11:18:51 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.100551.4716@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <MebEmeK00awP4Wh0tl@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- >>>>> On 28 Aug 92 09:54:13 GMT, ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher) said:
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- > As to whether better interfaces appear on other machines, it doesn't really
- > matter. As the Atari machines are a small minority the coding interface of
- > the machine has to be addapted so that it looks like one of the big boys
- > (however awful that may be) so as to persuade big time developers even to
- > look in the direction of the Atari. (If all it needs is a quick recompile
- > of, say, the PC code of a word processor, or anything, without any rewriting
- > then a software house is more likely to support it.)
-
- No, no, no, no! I didn't buy an ST so that I could run PC (for example) look
- alike software on it. If having access to that software is important to you
- then you should be using a PC. I don't think anyone here honestly sees atari
- taking on the likes of IBM, much as we'd like them too (more people using your
- software means more people likely to pay for it), but to suggest that they
- should just attempt to blend in instead... They're are enough PC clones in the
- world already, without Atari starting to churn them out.
-
- Kev
-