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From: david.megginson@canremote.uucp (DAVID MEGGINSON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Financial condition
Message-ID: <90032523232155@masnet.uucp>
Date: 26 Mar 90 02:47:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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I don't know why we're all so worried about the future of Atari. Right 
now, my ST lets me do some decent DTP, read e-mail, word process, and 
(using MT-CShell) gives me an incredibly cheap platform for developing 
Unix-like software at home instead of spending too much time sitting 
in front of an orange monitor under florescent lights. Sure, it's out of
date -- so are the Mac, Amiga, and anything which runs MS DOS (I include
Windows and MSDOS's messy follower, OS2). There's a new generation on 
the horizon, which will be so much larger and faster than any home 
computers that we won't know how we ever got along with only a few lousy
megabytes and speeds under 50mhz. We'll have multi-gigabyte HDs and 
machines running really nice graphic interfaces on top of a (usually 
invisible) Unix, all for a little more than the price of an ST today.

But it is still today. I've used (and programmed for) MSDOS, and it's a 
real pain. I like Unix, but I miss GEM, which is very easy to program. 
I'm ready to dump my mega 2 as soon as I can afford something better, 
but I'm not ready to whine about it in the mean time. Sure it's cheap. 
Sure Atari has no future, but neither do car manufacturers. Let's worry 
about these things tomorrow.


David Megginson, Centre for Medieval Studies
BITNET: meggin@vm.epas.utoronto.ca
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