🚀 go-pugleaf

>>And doesn't NEED a Hard Drive to run!!  
> 
> Big deal.  Get a hard drive anyway.  They're cheap.

Say bud...if they're so cheap, why donl;t you mail me the money order for a new
one?  I don't happen to have the cash, nor, I would bet, do a lot of other
people.  I may guess this may be even more so in a smaller, foreign country. 
I'll keep my eye on the mail and continue to run my software from the RAMdisk
so I won't be holding my breath.

>>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.

Up the amount of the money order, please.

> 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.

I'm still using  very old version of TOS (1.2 I think) and have no plans for
spending money to upgrade it.  BTW, I see you suddenly got a little tight with
the purse-strings....hmm.

>>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.

What's the point to trying to get a PC put together the right way to do what
I want it to do, for less cost than my MEGA ST4?  Too bad more people didn't
find out about ST's when I did.  There'd probably be less people hell-bent on
a hard drive/the latest-greatest 'x86 PC/super-workhorse/more-than-they-
need/1000.  And I have no qualms with GEM.

Oh well, you and the Jones' have fun competing with each other.  I'm gonna see
if I can get something done here.

P.S.  Why are the only people who actively promote the clones _I know_, the
ones who are able to hook up with _pirate copies_ of the hard-drive munching,
processing-time gobbling software they rave about?  I reckon a large number of
people would sing a different song if they _had_ to play by the rules.  Not to
mention they wouldn't be able to afford to fill those bulging hard-drives their
shiney new system sports.

				-Matt