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From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Neodesk on Rom?
Message-ID: <3762@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Nov 90 10:06:35 GMT
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From article <1990Nov8.020506.26053@sisd.kodak.com>, by rg@sisd.kodak.com (Rich Gortatowsky):
> 
> I fuddled with Neodesk at a local atari store and was thoroughly un-impressed.
> The Mac is far far far nicer in this area, as is windows... I use both.
> In fact, the lack of desktop alternatives that are decent are almost non-
> existant... DC desktop... Nope. NeoDesk. Nope. Gemini... The best by a long
> shot, and its shareware. It irked me so much I designed my own desktop
> replacemnt (In deskcart ie: cartridge tradition) and decided that it would be
> highly un-wise to waste my time on a complex product that would net me less
> than a avg. janitor makes in like time. You may think thats BS. But it's not.
> 
> --
> Jeff Gortatowsky       {seismo,allegra}!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jdg

Well, Jeff's entitled to his opinion here, but the fact remains that
NeoDesk's a pretty popular program.  I don't know what the average
janitor makes in Hadley, Mass., but judging from the time it's taking
Gribnif to send me my NeoDesk upgrade, they're shipping a goodly number
of copies and are probably making enough to get by.

If the ST had had as much time & money put into its desktop as the Mac,
no doubt it would be faster, smoother, more fully-featured, etc.  But it
would all have to be paid for somehow.

(I agree that with better management Atari could have got a lot further,
though.)

If NeoDesk were in ROM/EPROM/Cartridge format, wouldn't it have the same
upgrade problems as the built-in desktop?

Graham

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