Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!kth!draken!d88-jwa From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: ideal mac system... Message-ID: <2305@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 13 Nov 89 22:00:36 GMT References: Reply-To: h+@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) Followup-To: alt.religion.computers Distribution: comp.sys.mac Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 29 In article steveg@com.com (stephen harold goldstein) writes: >Not trying to start a CPU war or anything, but for $4500 you could >purchase the following: > Atari Mega 4 ST (4meg ram, 1 ds/dd floppy) > w/640x400 mono monitor (13") - $1800 > 128k Mac ROMs - $ 130 Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it ILLEGAL to use Apple software (i.e. Apple ROMs) on any other but Apple machinery ? Also, this might be a workable system, but it's FAR from slick - cumbersome, not compatible, etc. etc. Sure, it's good for some applications, but it's not a mac. No upward compatibility, support for all the various things that make the mac a truly magnificent concept. And it's MUCH harder to emulate an Atari on a mac, because Atari programmers assume so much about the system setup - many atari games only work on one kind of monitor, for instance... But I'm digressing. Followups to alt.religion.computers h+ -- This .signature is longer than 4 lines. If you'd like to see it in whole, please send a note to me. I'm h+@nada.kth.se and also h+@proxxi.se 8')