🚀 go-pugleaf

Michael Olin (molin@ptb.cl.msu.edu) wrote:
OS/2> dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:
OS/2> 
OS/2> >Now we're talking about insecure Atari owners who feel it necessary to
OS/2> >typecast anyone who buys an 80x86 machine, simply because it runs DOS.

Yup.

OS/2> It comes from experience.  I've played with a LOT of different machines
OS/2> in my day.  (Happens that I sell computers for a living...)  From VIC 20
OS/2> to 64 to AMiga, from 400 to 800 to XE to ST and TT, from Mac at several
OS/2> levels and from XT to current dinosaur.  ANd it's a simple choice for
OS/2> me:  I get the most productivity in the least time with my ST.  And facts
OS/2> are facts.  You go ahead and buy your $899 '486 with monitor. 

You must be joking.  Any 486 running a modern OS (not DOS) will blow
the socks off an ST.  I paid $49 for OS/2 and it does things on my
"dinosaur" that are simply impossible on an ST.  I can honestly say
that if I still had my ST it would probably spend 99% of its time
as a terminal (Uniterm is still the best damn terminal emulator around)
attached to one of the many free serial ports on my 486.  I can run
all of my DOS/Windows and OS/2 software (simultaneously) and if I reboot,
I can run unix and X windows.  Also, there is simply no comparison when
you look at the available software library.  There are thousands of
professional developers producing quality software, not to mention 
many quality shareware and freeware programs for the Intel-based
boxes and this is growing rapidly.  Compare that to the ever-shrinking
handful of people that are willing to roll the dice with Atari.  Your
software options are SHRINKING, not growing and this will get to be
more of an acute problem as more developers and users jump ship.

OS/2> WOn't
OS/2> offend me any at all if you find yourself headed for a service station
OS/2> in the VERY NEAR FUTURE.  When you buy cheap, you get cheap.  Simple as
OS/2> that.

This is coming from someone who bought an Atari computer???  Hehe, this
is great .signature material folks!

Regards,

Chris

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