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From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 2.0
Keywords: TOS NEODESK DCDESKTOP ROMS
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Date: 7 Nov 90 18:54:34 GMT
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cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:

- MS-DOS and Macs take a few seconds to boot, but I don't see people
- complaining about that.
 
From a cold boot, my BBS is up and in "waitring" mode in 20 seconds.  
It takes the Mac IIfx I use close to a minute, if not more just to 
get to the desktop.  I'm complaining.
 
- You just can't argue with the fact that the Mac and MS-DOS OS'
- have been regularly updated and cleansed of bugs.
 
And they're still slow and worthless.  Now, I see why I think IIfx is 
so slow: it's highly dependent on the hard drive.  When you select a 
drop down menu, for example, it reads the hard drive.

- >On the otherhand, if the new TOS had something that the others don't
- >have, such as multitasking (e.g. MIDI-tasking), then I think there 
- >would be many people out there in line (or on the phone to their
- >400-mile-away, local dealer) to get it.
- 
- Or you could just call up David Beckemeyer and get a multitasking
- shell for the ST now and thumb your nose at Atari.

I knew there was going to be trouble with this.  I should have added 
"easy-to-use."  Sure, MT C-Shell with VSH is nice, but I don't like 
command lines; if I did, I would have bought an IBM.  We have a 
graphics-based machine; why can't the multitasking interface be like 
Multifinder or the Amiga's? 

- Cheers,
-
- Chris
 
As always.

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