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In demon.ip.support.atari, ed@mistered.demon.co.uk (Eddie McGlone) wrote:
> In article <199512071955.AA01145@moroder.demon.co.uk>
>  Stephen Mulrine <robotron@moroder.demon.co.uk> said:-
>>Anybody buying a computer for the sole purpose of hooking up to the
>>Internet would have to be mad to go for a Falcon instead of a PC.  (Note
>>that I said "sole purpose"; there are undoubtedly things that a Falcon
>>does better.)
>I agree - I was even thinking about it myself for a short while. The PC has
>the widest range of software available. My point was though, that going to
>a PC, Mac, Sun, SGI, Archimedes, Amiga, whatever..will not automatically
>absolve you from many of the problems we Atari users experience on the net.

If you have no Internet experience, I'm sure it won't.  But in the long run,
PCs and Macs win hands down.  There's not even anything which would make the
ST particularly suitable for beginners - apart from the fact that many
people have them already.  In fact, I would suggest that having to configure
and run two completely separate packages (NOS and STIK) to obtain reasonable
Internet access makes the ST rather _unsuitable_ for beginners.

>>There's nothing of a higher quality than any corresponding PC package, I'm
>>sure.  I think everybody could list significant improvements they'd like
>>to see made to both Oasis and STIK/CAB (to which I presume you are
>>referring).  Admittedly, the latter is a remarkable feat of programming.
>Agreed for internet access - although CAB is getting there at a phenomenal
>rate! - Have you tried the latest version yet?

I've heard it's improved a lot, but I won't be trying it out myself as most
Web pages look dreadful at the standard ST screen resolutions.  Yet poor WWW
access is better than none (or text-only).  It was always very embarrassing
trying to explain to people precisely why I couldn't check out their Web
pages.

>But for the more mundane purposes to which I put my computer - Music, some
>graphics, a bit of DTP...there are Atari based packages which can easily
>stand against the best that is available for Windows etc.

Music and nostalgia are the only reasons I'm still hanging onto my old ST!

Stephen
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