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Article #22827Re: Last time on this one
From: David Baggett
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:33
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:33
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In article <1iobpvINN79q@golem.wcc.govt.nz> wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes: >> OS/2 2.x? NeXTstep '486 (when it comes out)? > >And what are the minimum system requirements for that!? How much RAM >does it Need!? A losing argument. No one complains that the ST's TOS requires more than 4K of RAM, but in 1978 it would have been a real problem. Likewise, one or two megs is no big deal now that SIMM prices are so low. You will sound sillier with every passing month. >And doesn't NEED a Hard Drive to run!! Big deal. Get a hard drive anyway. They're cheap. >OS/2 and windows are HUGE Huge by 1985 (ST creation date) standards, maybe. Not by "real OS" standards. You really have to try using a real OS sometime before you pass judgement on these things. >and VERY expensive That's a GOOD one. $50 is *real* tough to manage for an OS, yeah. >the ST's operating system >comes built in - you don't have to pay for it! Right, and consequently you have to pay $75 to upgrade the OS. That is, every 3 years when they fix the pending 100 bugs in TOS. >MS-Doze is the standard on IBM clones, and it is VERY under-productive! What, exactly, do you DO with your ST that would be so much more unproductively done on a PC? And in terms of calls, TOS is more minimal than DOS is. And there IS no CLI for the ST, as far as Atari is concerned. Only the (snicker) GEM desktop. Dave Baggett -- dmb@ai.mit.edu MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ADVENTIONS: interactive fiction (text adventures) for the 90's! dmb@ai.mit.edu *** Compu$erve: 76440,2671 *** GEnie: ADVENTIONS
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!case!dmb From: dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Last time on this one Date: 10 Jan 1993 07:33:20 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Lines: 43 Message-ID: <1iojg0INNjna@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <C0Furt.I67@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <H.ea.7tZUy7WdW&k@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> <1iobpvINN79q@golem.wcc.govt.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: case.ai.mit.edu