Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!marque!carroll1!dnewton
From: dnewton@carroll1.UUCP (Dave 'C is cool, but what about LOGO?' Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 386's, TT's, a machine I want
Keywords: TT,386,Atari
Message-ID: <788@carroll1.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 89 18:12:22 GMT
References: <211@fjcp60.GOV>
Reply-To: dnewton@carroll1.UUCP (Dave 'C is cool, but what about LOGO?' Newton)
Organization: Organization?  We don't need no steenkin' organization.
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In article <211@fjcp60.GOV> winston@fjcnet.GOV (Winston M. Llamas) writes:
>....  Still, have you ever noticed that even some of the most used
>programs on the ST (Flash is a glaring example) is feature deficient when
>compared to programs available on other machines?

   (I think Flash is a comm program--if it's not, ignore this :-)  I've been
using UniTerm now for a while, and have decided it's easily one of the best
terminal programs available for any machine.  Even my PC-type friends have
said it's pretty cool, which is pretty good for them, 'cuz they all hate
Atari.

>.....  Or the TT (after reading the specs of this machine, I could not
>believe I waited four years for something that "advanced").  

   Umm, you're telling me a 386 system is advanced?  I'm sorry, but it's
really quite a banal little system.  There's nothing fancy about a cache.
There's certainly nothing too 'neato' about putting all the processor-intensive
tasks (graphics, sound) on the main processor.  It's a lot more fun (and fast)
to use a (gasp) _co-processor_!!!

>The bottom line is, the best deal available on the computing world are the
>myriads of 386 boxes available NOW.  You can buy Unix for it now and get
>some good PD development tools.  And if you're desperate, you can even
>run MS-DOS.  If Intel CPU's are not your bag, the Mac IIcx and IIci are
>really nice boxes with tons of software available.

   Intel CPU's are not my bag.  Unfortunately, neither is paying Apple up
the wazoo for a slow machine.  Oh yeah, I _could_ get a IIci, but if I had
that much money to waste, I'd probably get a NeXT.

   Additionally, I just saw an add for a 25Mhz, 60-Meg disk, 4 Meg RAM
486 box that looks like it would beat a 33MHz 386 for $4995.  I'd rather
have that, if I was going to go the route of a boring machine.

   Can we stop this incessant "Your computer sucks, 'cuz mine's better' 
stuff now?  Very little is accomplished except for reiterating the point
that no machine has everything everyone wants.


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