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From: ncastellano@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A Unix Box and it's Cost.
Message-ID: <3437@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 89 17:31:21 GMT
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In article <12430003@acf5.NYU.EDU>, mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides) writes:
>> From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
>>
>>What has happened to Atari Corp?? why can't they design and produce a new
>>machine as nice as the ST was back in 1985?? The ST beat other computers
>>hands down in 1985. I wish the TT could do the same in 1990!!
> 
> Atari cannot (I reapeat CANNOT) compete with conventional computers
> since these days you can find PCs with:
> 	- Very very low prices.
> 	- Many and cheap expanantion options.
> 	- Much and cheap software.
> 	- Very very powerful (memory, disk space, MIPS, screen).
> 	- Multiprocessing of just about any kind you can think of.
> 
> So what can they do? Except of producing cheap game systems?
> 

First of all, you get a 68000 microprocessor for half (or less) the price of 
a Mac.  Ever try programming in assembly on a 80x86?  Gaak.

You also get a computer which can be expanded to run Macintosh software, PC
software, Atari 800 software (nice for those of us who have been with Atari for
a while), Apple IIe software.

You also get a computer with lots of PD software (unix shells, editors,
compilers, games)

You get a computer which runs neither MS-DOS nor Finder (Both of which
I despise) unless you really want it to, and which can run unix-like shells
(Gulam, MT-C shell).

You get a computer with built-in midi capabilities and lots of midi software
available.

You get a computer for which you don't have to buy a bus card every time you
get a new piece of hardware.

You also get a computer on which you can play games if you want to.  I am a
programmer, so I don't play games much (I sometimes write them...) but it's
nice to be able to play an occasional game of Tetris (which happens to be PD on
the ST...)

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