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From: gints@NCoast.ORG (Steve Juhasz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Portable Mac vs STACY
Message-ID: <1989Sep29.032643.24455@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 29 Sep 89 03:26:43 GMT
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In article <45e9895f.71d0@apollo.HP.COM> rehrauer@apollo.COM (Steve Rehrauer) writes:
>
>Since when has hardware been the only important factor?  TOS is junk.
>GEM is near-junk in its present buggy ST incarnation.  No, that's not
>fair I guess; TOS & GEM are "priced almost appropriately" -- howzzat?
>You should pick your hardware based largely on what it will run that
>you wish to run.  Why else would bazillions of people still choose to
>buy XT/AT-clones (price aside :) ?

> [atari-bashing stuff deleted]
>
>My my, SO many exclamation-marks!  :)  Forget "cold fusion"; if we could
>only bottle "Atari-owner loyalty" there wouldn't BE an energy crisis.  :)
>(So speaks an ex-Atari-enthusiast.)
>-- 
>>>> "Aaiiyeeeee!  Death from above!" <<<  | Steve Rehrauer
>    Fone: (508)256-6600 x6168             | Apollo Computer, a
>    ARPA: rehrauer@apollo.hp.com          | division of Hewlett-Packard
>"Look, Max: 'Pressurized cheese in a can'.  Even _WE_ wouldn't eat that!"

Since you are so into bashing Atari and the ST line of computers, Mr.
Rehrauer, perhaps you could enlighten us "Atari-owner loyalists" to why you
consider the ST's to be "junk". I personally own an Atari ST, but have also
done extensive (and I mean extensive) work on both Macintoshes and IBM-PC's
during my four years at Cornell (A Mac and IBM dominated university). In my
opinion (and I stress that), The Mac operating system is the most buggy thing
I've ever encountered. If you want me to go into details about that, I will.
As far as the IBM and compatibles, I believe they and the ST's are two very 
different types of computers that have their strong and weak points. I prefer
a mouse and menu environment over a command line one. That is one reason I 
chose the ST. BTW, I think WINDOWS for the IBM stinks (talk about emulation!).
Finally, If you think there is no good software for the ST line, you better
wake up and smell the coffee! Pick up an issue of START magazine or any other
good ST magazine, and you'll think differently.

					-Steve
























































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