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Peter da Silva (peter@sugar.uu.net) writes:
>Well, I own two Atari 800s and an Amiga 1000. I have had an Atari 520ST and
>an MS-DOS machine (Tandy 1000HD). 

I own an 800 and a 520.  I've programmed both machines extensively as well as
machines from IBM (RT, PC), Apple (//e, Mac), DEC (VAX/VMS, Ultrix), Sun
(SunOS/X11) and various others.

>                                   By that logic I should be unbiased and have
>an evenly balanced viewpoint. I don't.  My opinion of the Atari ST, due to
>my experience with mine, is that it is a poorly-thought-out hack, and the
>spiritual descendant of the Commodore-64.

I think your statement is probably false.  I totally agree with your
assessment of the ST so I think that your viewpoint is evenly balanced and
unbiased.  "Fair" does not mean "without opinion."

My 800 is a very useful game machine, a gem for its time.  My 520ST is a
terminal emulator/file storage device.  To be fair, if I owned an IBM PC it
would probably serve the same purpose.

Actually to be really fair that's probably about the only thing I'd use
anything for unless it ran some form of Berkeley Unix. :-)  (Well, maybe
I'd use an Amiga for a frame buffer :-) :-) )


Go ahead and flame me, this subject is now in my kill file (electronic
asbestos).