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Last night while sitting trying to figure out how many more months it will
be before I can get my memory/disk upgrade, so I can start saving up for a
compiler, an ironic and interesting thought occurred to me.

This Atari ST... we keep criticizing its low quality compared to the
Macintosh.  This is probably justified; Apple I suspect put a lot more R&D
into the Macintosh; and it's the Commodore Amiga we really have to worry
about, anyway, since Apple lost the Turbo Pascal opportunity to Commodore.

But, if you read the interviews with the Apple engineers, it appears that
the Atari ST is more or less what the Apple engineers started out to build,
before the Mac started getting enhanced and improved into what it is now:
it had much lower resolution, was generally a smaller machine, and was much
less expensive.

Now, other than the fact that the Mac is so expensive, I personally think I
would rather have the Mac anyday.  But it's kind of interesting to consider
this possibility that maybe the ST is sort of what the Mac started out as...

DISCLAIMER: I like the Mac!  I just wish some aspects of it weren't so
obstinate...
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