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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What does the TT Buy me??
Keywords: atari, unix
Message-ID: <46c15364.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 89 16:10:00 GMT
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Reply-To: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
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In article <46bcb82f.14a1f@force.UUCP> covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:
[ "Why buy a TT/P?" ]
>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!!

    Richard, I humbly suggest that what you seem to want, and what I myself
    wouldn't mind having, is an ST emulator for the Amiga.  Think about it.
    You want plug-in CPU upgrades (Amiga can do).  You want multitasking
    (Amiga can do).  You want slots & a more standard bus (A2000 can do;
    didn't C= design the A2000 with some slots that accept PC cards?).  You
    want better graphics (well, C= continues to improve their graphics chips,
    and with an A2000 you can buy a PC Targa board if you need something
    better).  Outline screen fonts?  Well, I don't know of any box in the
    general ST/Amiga/Mac price-range that does that (though I'm sure I'll
    be "gently corrected" if I'm wrong ;-).

    I don't own an Amiga, so please abort any "Oh gawd, another Amigoid
    who thinks his machine is better" followups.  I'm not trying to start
    or perpetuate another stupid flame war.  I own a 520ST, and have since
    '85.  It does useful things, but I'd like something better and for
    various reasons I'm reluctant to consider buying another Atari box
    (and can't afford a NeXT, Sun, Apollo, MacIIci or any similar machine
    with the features I want).

    As far as I can tell from your many previous postings, the only real
    reason you have (or that any of us have, probably) for wanting to stick
    with an Atari-brand machine is the (possibly substantial) investment
    you've made in software.

    Perhaps we should undertake to write one?  I have access to an A2000
    and (obviously) an ST.  What do you say?  Anyone else interested?  Is
    it easy?  Probably far from it.  Perhaps impossible to do (legally,
    anyway -- I'm not contemplating making a disk-copy of my TOS ROMs ;-P ).
    But at least it would give us something constructive to do with our
    dissatisfaction, and everyone else could go back to sleep. ;-)
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