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From: 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Spectre in a Mac Environment
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Date: 8 Nov 89 13:53:00 GMT
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At my workplace, there are little dominions of microcomputing. One building
is dominated by Atari STs, others are dominated by PCs, others have nice
mixes of Macs, STs and PCs and one in particular is the mecca for Mac
enthusiasts. Nestled neatly in the Mac mecca are 4 1040STs that sit as
front ends to a VAX based graphics system (I/O is via UNITERM).

I trundled by and plugged Spectre GCR into one of the STs and lo and behold,
Mac users started drifting in with floppies trying to find a Mac application
that would not run on the lowly (that's their opinion, not mine) ST. After
a full day on disk-in, disk-out, click-click and ooo-ahs, Mac users were
finally convinced that YES, Spectre GCR is for real and YES it does a great
job of running MacWare (Gee!, the screen looks so much bigger!).

Having seen VersTerm Pro, Cricket Draw and Graph, MacDraw II, MacDraft,
Word 4.0, Excel 1.5, FileMaker +, MicroSoft Chart, StatWorks, SuperPaint,
etc. run on the ST, most Mac users agreed that an ST with GCR would fit
in nicely with a Mac environment.