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From: mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What does the TT Buy me??
Message-ID: <12430010@acf5.NYU.EDU>
Date: 14 Nov 89 04:33:00 GMT
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/* acf5:comp.sys.atari.st / hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) / 10:04 pm  Nov 13, 1989 */
>Given that perspective, TOS isn't so bad - the PC world has yet to switch
>to OS/2, so they're still looking at single-user single-tasking 24x80
>character cell COMMAND.COM prompts. Obviously this market is shaking itself
>out pretty quickly though, and Atari may yet miss the boat...

I Assume you haven't heard of Microsoft windows or Desqview for the PCs.
It takes less that $1000 of hardware to multitask DOS using a graphical
environment and virtual memory (of sorts).

Thanasis


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