Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!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: Re: Look ma, no flames! <well almost>
Message-ID: <801@carroll1.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 89 03:19:16 GMT
References: <CMM.0.88.625285647.cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu> <4675ca0d.14a1f@force.UUCP> <1160@cc.helsinki.fi>
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 <1160@cc.helsinki.fi> JALKIO@cc.helsinki.fi (Jouni Alkio) writes:
>In article <4675ca0d.14a1f@force.UUCP>, covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:
>> But, I will NEVER buy another computer from Atari. Especially
>> a closed system like the TT/P. One lousy short VME card slot
>> does not make an OPEN system. you need 5 or more. One slot
>> just guarantees that no one will design for it. Lack of resources.
>What do you need those 5 or more slots for. (And please don't answer:
>"internal modems, hard-disks, etc", because that's only a cosmetic issue.) 

   Well, AD/DA cards, interrupt cards (for process control), parallel output
cards, co-processors (i.e. high-speed DSP's, _Transputers_, an 80386 machine
for doing DOS if you must), and probably some I can't think about.





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