Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcrware!mwca!bill
From: bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Neodesk on Rom?
Keywords: Neodesk
Message-ID: <1738@mwca.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 90 20:20:25 GMT
References: <67981@bu.edu.bu.edu> <1990Nov8.020506.26053@sisd.kodak.com>
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Santa Clara, CA
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In article <1990Nov8.020506.26053@sisd.kodak.com> rg@sisd.kodak.com (Rich Gortatowsky) writes:
>I fuddled with Neodesk at a local atari store and was thoroughly un-impressed.
>...
>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...
>...
>Jeff Gortatowsky       {seismo,allegra}!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jdg

Personally, I don't think 'fuddling with' will give you a proper feel for an
alternative desktop's value - it's the sort of product that you make judgements
on after weeks of using and finding what works well and what seems poorly
implemented.

After a couple of months with Neodesk 3 (sorry to those of you still waiting on
upgrades!) I feel that it is an excellent operating environment. I used Gemini
predominately before Neodesk 3 and was impressed, but Neodesk has implemented
most of Gemini's features (except built-in CLI and 'small' icons, but the CLI
accessory makes up some of the difference, and the icons in Neodesk are more
easily edited).

Gemini simply took up to much memory (I have 1 meg), and GDOS was incompatible
with too many programs.

Do you have any specifics of the Windows or Mac desktops that you think Neodesk
lacks?


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