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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Specter
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Date: 1 Jun 90 13:26:00 GMT
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In article <4690@uafhp.uark.edu> wgj@uafhcx.uucp (Bill Johnston) writes:
>A freind of mine has been asking me about Specter.  His buisness wants to
>install Mac's to do their publishing.  However, beset with a shortage of
>funds they would like to know if installing Atari's with the Specter board
>and software is a good idea.

No knocks on Spectre (I don't own one), but it doesn't seem wise to
base a business on something "nearly compatible".  Personal use, yes.
Business internal use, perhaps.  But if by "their publishing" you
mean anything that goes out the door, I'd suggest they probably
shouldn't go the emulator route.  Or at they very least, that they
thoroughly test the software they want to run, on the Spectre, before
jumping into it in a big way.

Again, nothing against ST's or Spectres or the combination; but if it
were my business, I'd be pretty conservative where my workaday bottom-
line equipment was concerned.  (On the other hand, what publishing
software do they want?  Perhaps there's something comparable on the
native ST side?  I hear good things about Calamus...)
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