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From: mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A Unix Box and it's Cost.
Message-ID: <12430006@acf5.NYU.EDU>
Date: 11 Nov 89 03:49:00 GMT
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Organization: New York University
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/* acf5:comp.sys.atari.st / ncastellano@eagle.wesleyan.edu / 12:31 pm  Nov 10, 1989 */

>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.

I have never thought of the posibility of buing a Mac. Proprietary system yach!
I would use assembler only if my life depended on it.
What is wrong with Turbo Pascal? 
Link with 100 bytes of assembler if it is really necessary.

Once I used 8086 asembler. I will never forget it...
But with the advanced compiler and the comming of the 80386 should not be
any problems. 
(Unless you have to write a lot of assembly and keep it MSDOS
 compatible too, maybe)
And 386 systems are dirt cheap too.

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

I cannot help but think that the alternative would unfortunately be
buying a whole new computer instead.
(What is worse is that often there is not even a new computer to upgrade)

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I will go back to my first point.
I don't think there is much future for the Atari in the establised marked
of PCs or systems with excellent (often specialised) support.

It would be great if they attempted to establish a multiprosessing standard.
If it is cheap and fast and has good graphics, it is certain to succeed.

Thanasis


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