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- From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
- Subject: Re: GEM.. what needs to be fixed, and soon!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep04.121952.133363@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
- Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne, F. R. Germany
- References: <MebEmeK00awP4Wh0tl@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Aug28.095413.26495@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <ABADDON.92Sep1121112@suprenum.supr.scm.liv.ac.uk> <1992Sep04.085511.23890@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 12:19:52 GMT
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- In <1992Sep04.085511.23890@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher) writes:
-
- >Secondly, for the Atari non-intel based machines to be taken seriously at
- >all they have to run a set of de facto standard software. It doesn't really
- >matter if the Atari specific software is more powerful or even cheaper, it's
- >just a fact of life.
-
- If it doesn't really matter, then why should anyone have an ST
- instead of a PC or Mac? The software for the 680x0 Ataris
- generally has a much better performance/price ratio than the
- software for any other platform. Some pieces of ST software are
- without counterparts on any other system, and the best thing
- about it is that some of that stuff is even free! To me, that
- makes a big difference.
- If you want to use "de facto standard software", get yourself a
- "de facto standard machine". If you want something better, have
- an Atari. But don't expect that to be 100% problem free. As
- someone has once stated: "Many who have been ahead of their time
- had to wait for it in uncomfortable shelters."
-
- >The only way I can see for this to happen is to produce
- >and release to developers an interface library which will allow them to just
- >compile and sell their code from another machine. Maybe the interface
- >library could emulate the MAC-OS system calls (though I guess Apple would
- >have something to say about that).
-
- Creating libraries is usually something the developers do for
- themselves. If they program in a too system-specific, unportable
- way, this is their problem. Atari for developing their own OS,
- not for emulating others.
-
- +- Jan Kim -- X.400: S=kim;OU=vax;O=mpiz-koeln;P=mpg;A=dbp;C=de -+
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