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From: windy@beauty.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andrew John Stuart Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: "DOS machines" (Was: TT (Who has one?))
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Date: 26 Jul 90 15:42:02 GMT
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Some of us don't take the attitude "Why make life easy when IBM can make it
almost imposible for you?" I would rather have an Atari st TT or amiga than the
PC compataible I have to suffer at home at the moment (though now with minix).

Intel tried to do too much before they new for certain what was usefull and
what was not, hence brain dammage such as 64k segments, lack of interrupt requests etc.
The 68000 series, amongst other processor series, does not suffer from such handicaps, 
as Motorola thought before burning a design into silicon. I use 68030 unix at 
work, minix or os9 at home (on a friends atari 520). If I had the cash I 
would have a TT (in a more practical box, of course)

Andrew Miller

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