Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!neuro1!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari,net.micro.cbm Subject: Re: Re: Amiga vs. ST Message-ID: <422@baylor.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 16:34:57 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.422 Posted: Fri Aug 16 16:34:57 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 21:28:38 EDT References: <268@ihnet.UUCP> <1669@hao.UUCP> <5436@fortune.UUCP> <338@eneevax.UUCP> <671@terak.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.micro.atari:1039 net.micro.cbm:1633 > Applications????? > > Is there anyone on the net who gives a tinker's damn about applications? Careful, your sarcasm's showing! > The important thing is to have a 68000 CPU and nifty specs for sound and > graphics. It doesn't matter if you ever *use* that stuff or not. > > Besides, hopefully someone will put Unix on an ST or an Amiga. That's > another important thing to have, even though you have no use for it. I don't know about you but I'm not a little kid who needs hir hand held when se plays games. I'm not a beancounter who uses prepackaged applications in Lotus. I'm not a writer like Jerry Pournelle who needs the world's greatest word processor. I'm a programmer. Without us, there will never be any applications. We need to be able to do 10 or 15 things at once so we can get software out before the press calls it vaporware. We need multitasking. UNIX is our application. -- Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf) UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076