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From: pegram@uvm-gen.UUCP (pegram r)
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Subject: Re: "kneecapping" and TOS piracy
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Date: 29 Nov 89 19:03:38 GMT
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From article <434@opus.NMSU.EDU>, by whack@nmsu.edu (Warren J Hack):
> 
> In the previous post, it was commented that what was needed 
> was some commitment by developers to improve their products
> and for there to be a wider variety of products produced. 
> Some products were suggested including SLM drivers, graphics
> packages, and so forth.  
> I would like to comment that some of the need for products like
> the Spectre GCR and PC-Speed(and others like them) arises from 
> the fact that there is software available on those machines which
> are in ways better developed than ST software.  I congratulate 
> the developers of the emulators for making that software available
> to ST users, but I must ask software developers to fill in the
> gaps with ST software.  

	{specific request deleted}
	Hear, Hear! All I've been seeing is flames about hardware and
	the way Atari is run.  We can do little about those things, but
	isn't there something we can do to turn around the small and
	shrinking (at least in the U.S.A.) applications software base?
	I can't find software titles that were out years ago, e.g. some 
	compilers, an on-the-fly keyboard macro program, an outliner-word 
	processor like More on the Mac (all there ever was was Hippo Concept),
	and new ones are not out there replacing them.  If this doesn't 
	change soon I may be forced to go to permanent emulation (haven't
	done it at all - yet ;-}).  Constructive suggestions desired.
	
> Let's hear it for some variety and quality.
> 
> Warren J. Hack               Dept. of Astronomy, New Mexico State
> whack@nmsu.edu               "I'm just a poor grad. student"
 

Bob Pegram (pegram@griffin.uvm-gen.uvm.edu)