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Article #23448Re: Convince me to stick with Atari.
From: William B Dwinnell
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:39
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:39
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Although I may get rocks thrown at me... I have been using DOS computers for years, and have built a career out of them. I like IBM clones and DOS, but I am not blind to their weaknesses, some of which Atari sts do not share. I own a DOS clone and an STe, and am quite happy with each. Software availability is certainly weak for the ST, but then again systems software for the IBM is limited. DOS is nice, but has its limitations, Windows simply doesn't perform reliably, and OS/2 is limited in performance, software abvailability, and distribution. (Personally, and I know more stones will be cast at me for writing this, I'd prefer Unix as an upgrade to DOS, over Windows or OS/2), DOS did have a chance to keep moving, but, thanx to Microscam, that never happened. Lastly, my experience has been that TOS with GEM runs much more reliably than DOS with Windows, for all the cool technological innovations that Windows has (tried) to deliver, like DLLs.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!think.com!ames!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!pitt.edu!wbdst From: wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Convince me to stick with Atari. Message-ID: <1763@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 13 Jan 93 02:39:18 GMT References: <93009.183252SML108@psuvm.psu.edu> <H.ea.j4q4EfvkubE@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> <1993Jan12.154110.15004@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Sender: news+@pitt.edu Organization: University of Pittsburgh Lines: 15