NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/sys/atari/st/13551

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From: [e-mail] (V.G.J.M. Stoks)
Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying?
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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 11:09:19 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> Mark Kovarski <[e-mail]> writes:



>So what are they really looking for? Another computer that will collect dust
>after a few months of use. Or are they looking around them and see no
>software that will take advantage of its new functions. Heck, if I see
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
            This is bullsh*t. (Excusez le mot). I worked at a
            company during my vacation where some LASER 286
            and 386 were used, with extended (or expanded,
            see, what a stupid system?) memory of about 3 MB.
            The old programs were too stupid to notice it and
            it cost a few days ($$$$$$$!!!!!) to get the thing
            set up right. And even now things don't work well.
            Now take an Atari. You plug in more memory (or
            have it soldered in, those PC slots are a good
            idea, true). You take any program, and hey presto!
            It uses the memory AUTOMATICALLY. No config.sys.

>major names like Borland, Microsoft, Lotus Corp., and more I might consider
>it since it would have potential. Otherwise, another item for the local
>museum. Your DSP, SCSI-2, 45 trillion color modes are the same arguments
>that 16 year old kids make on Atari Corp. conference in North America called
>"AEO."

Borland OK, but if big nasty ugly Microsoft and Lotus, or maybe even
WordPerfect Corp would lay their hands on poor Atari, I'd have nowhere
else to go but Archimedes. Look here, people who wish to use dogs like
dBASE, WP or Lotus shouldn't but an Atari. We don't want PC software
clones on our nice computer. We want nice, GEM-using, Atari specific
programs, which can import and export to the formats of WP and Lotus,
for example, anyway. The stupid software available for PC's are one of
the main reasons I DON'T WANT ONE. I can tell, I've had to work with
the programs I mentioned. And as I said before, I'd trade WP for even
the oldest version of First Word Plus. (I bet you're thinking of the
many features that one doesn't have and WP does, but I'm talking about
the user interface. And there are many ST wordprocessors which have as
many functions as WP, for less than half the price. Gee, I just
thought of another reason not to buy PC's. Sure, you get a 786-100GHz
machine for under xxx$, but you'll have to spend about the price of
the machine itself for a wordprocessor. Stupid. Unless of course, you
do as many (almost all) PC users and get yourself an illegal copy.)

A bit of a hasy posting, and I'll probably get flamed for it. But I'll
happily sacrifice myself for getting people to understand that Atari
users generally WANT Atari's and their programs, or they'd have bought
a PC in the first place.

>Mark K.
>E-Mail: [e-mail]

Sander SToks
[e-mail]