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In article <Dec.29.12.32.36.1988.3546@aramis.rutgers.edu> paone@aramis.rutgers.edu (Phil Paone) writes:
=Just on a side note.  There are no hardware flaws with the ST.  All
=the bugs are in software.  I remember reading in another article that
=the hardware was hacked.  I don't get it.  THe hardware is all off the
=shelf, the system never crashes or behaves unpredictably due to
=hardware problems.
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=Phil Paone
=paone@topaz.rutgers.edu
=!rutgers.edu!topaz.edu!ppaone


good point, phil. the ST non-mechanical hardware is very solid. heavy use
of drives will cause them to (eventually) fail, but that is true  across the
board (ibm, ST, amiga, etc).

TOS 1.0 and 1.2 (and equivalent european versions?) suffer from bugs, most
of which only cause grief to developers: i wager the "average" ST user
rarely sees any bombs (provided his application software is relatively
well behaved). i doubt if that type of user (one who does not do "significant"
programming in C/basic/et al) even sees the 40 folder bug.

please don't start a debate as to what "average" or "significant" means.
there are a million or so STs, probably 500-2000 professional developers
(i.e. those makeing $$ writing software on and for the ST), and probably
50% or more of the ST owners never even write a basic program. i admit
i am just guessing, but it seems reasonable to expect the ST to have a user
profile not much different than any other comparably priced ($200<price<$5k)
system. most users of software in my particular market niche (music) only
run applications from the desktop. the software in that market is generally
robust and free from catastrophic bugs, albeit heavily copy protected (:^(.

-bill

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