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Article #3112Re: Loyal Atarians?!?
From: Daniel B. Suthers
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1989 09:01
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1989 09:01
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The Question; Why are Atari users so fanatical/loyal? The ST was the best machine available at the time; Cheap, fast, capable. It is still fast and capable. Most of the software has been written from scratch, and takes the hardware into account. This makes for some VERY good programs. The IBM and MAC programs I have to work with generally are barely usable or badly over-priced. I would hate to have to put up with them at home. The built in interfaces mean that most programmers can devote time to the programing, not on getting it to work with all 10,000 variations of dos/memory/hardware/TSRs. The development environments are close enough the UNIX environment that I can port code to my ST, and back to the Mini I use at work. This saves me development time. I'd rather have a 3B4000, but can't aford the power bill. :-) Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!network!ucsd!ames!amdahl!pacbell!pbhya!dbsuther From: dbsuther@PacBell.COM (Daniel B. Suthers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Loyal Atarians?!? Message-ID: <29202@pbhya.PacBell.COM> Date: 14 Aug 89 09:01:49 GMT References: <89081310495605@masnet.uucp> Reply-To: dbsuther@PacBell.COM (Daniel B. Suthers) Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA Lines: 24