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Article #5638Re: What does the TT Buy me??
From: Thanasis Mitsolides
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1989 04:33
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1989 04:33
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/* acf5:comp.sys.atari.st / hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) / 10:04 pm Nov 13, 1989 */ >Given that perspective, TOS isn't so bad - the PC world has yet to switch >to OS/2, so they're still looking at single-user single-tasking 24x80 >character cell COMMAND.COM prompts. Obviously this market is shaking itself >out pretty quickly though, and Atari may yet miss the boat... I Assume you haven't heard of Microsoft windows or Desqview for the PCs. It takes less that $1000 of hardware to multitask DOS using a graphical environment and virtual memory (of sorts). Thanasis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How Hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of cource!" R. A. Heinlein Internet: mitsolid@csd2.nyu.edu (mitsolid%csd2.nyu.edu@relay.cs.net) UUCP : ...!uunet!cmcl2!csd2!mitsolid -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!yale!cmcl2!acf5!mitsolid From: mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: What does the TT Buy me?? Message-ID: <12430010@acf5.NYU.EDU> Date: 14 Nov 89 04:33:00 GMT References: <46bcb82f.14a1f@force.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 20