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From: steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 386's, TT's, a machine I want
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Date: 26 Oct 89 15:56:42 GMT
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In article <212@fjcp60.GOV>,
     winston@fjcnet.GOV (Winston M. Llamas) writes ... 

>I don't think I said that the ST sucked.  The gist of my previous post was
>that even if Atari manages to get the TT out in time, it will take a while
>(if ever) before a significant software base is developed for it. 

If the TT runs all properly written ST software (much faster!), what's the
big deal? And the optional Unix OS is said to be System V and capable of
running anything written for the Motorola binary standard. I don't think
it's reasonable to term either of those software bases "insignificant."

I sympathize with your frustrations at not being able to get Smalltalk or
Scheme or whatever, but let's be serious: those are not significant
applications in terms of the general market. They're weird.

Anyone who's looking for mainstream applications -- word processors,
1-2-3-compatible spreadsheets, desktop publishing, databases, etc., will
be in great shape. There's a lot of specialty software out there, too
(MIDI is the obvious example).

I bought an ST in 1985, so I know what a software drought is like. The TT
won't have that problem.

      Steve Yelvington, up at the lake in Minnesota        
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