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   I enjoy spending friday nights reading these comments:

In article <45e9895f.71d0@apollo.HP.COM> rehrauer@apollo.COM (Steve Rehrauer) writes:
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>Since when has hardware been the only important factor?  TOS is junk.
>GEM is near-junk in its present buggy ST incarnation.  No, that's not
>fair I guess; TOS & GEM are "priced almost appropriately" -- howzzat?
>You should pick your hardware based largely on what it will run that
>you wish to run.  Why else would bazillions of people still choose to
>buy XT/AT-clones (price aside :) ?
>
   Yup, you're right on the ball, Steve.  You should also mention that MS-Dos
is ancient and tired.  OS/2 has no software support and changes from day to
day.  Mac's finder is slow and anti-programmers.  Unix is the epitome of
unfriendly.  Why do people even try to put an operating system on computers?

>IBM/NEC/Zenith and Apple >>> OWN <<< the portable market in this country.

   I'd say that Apple would have had to already marketed a few portable
machines for them to own any portion of the portable market, although they are
in a good position to sell quite a few in the near future.

>[ I find it helps to think of Atari as a European company
>that builds for Europe, sells in Europe, and just coincidentally happens
>to live in the U.S. ]
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>
>Forget "cold fusion"; if we could
>only bottle "Atari-owner loyalty" there wouldn't BE an energy crisis.  :)
>(So speaks an ex-Atari-enthusiast.)

   Looks like atari's support for their own machines has axed another user.
Beginning to sound like a broken record.

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