Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!unido!mat500!leo From: leo@mat500.uucp (C. Bullerdick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Just gripin'... Message-ID: <1064@mat500.uucp> Date: 7 Dec 90 17:42:14 GMT References: <249@stbimbo.UUCP> <1990Nov29.211142.10967@wam.umd.edu> <59373@aurs01.UUCP> Organization: Dr. Materna GmbH, Dortmund (FRG) Lines: 36 roberson@aurs01.UUCP (Charles "Chip" Roberson) writes: >>In article mg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Paul Greelish) writes: >>The ST is dying. Nope, it's alive and becomes kicking again! >I have to agree. I had been planning on upgrading my ST to 4megs to run >the GNU stuff, but I've decided to save the money for another machine. Wait till january, ..., then get a TT! >Personally, I'm partial to Sun and their prices are getting better all >the time. I had wanted a NeXT I don't think it's going to make it either. >With the new Sun SPARC 2 announced, the market for SPARC 1s will open up >to us low-end types. In spite of buying a SunSparcNeXTMipsMac, i would prefer to get a new car, perhaps a 2nd-hand Porsche? THAT'S how the price is one have to pay for one of these in Europe! >I don't think I could ever buy an IBM drone. They have definitely overtaken >the ST in raw computing power but I still don't think much of the architecture >nor the OS and I don't like Intel chips. "No friend would give a PC to a friend" is something true i've read elsewhere... >An apple is a possibility, but it too is limited and pricey as well. >Power without the support isn't worth any price. If you'v got the power, there are ways to solve every problem, but if one have just support... >-chip C. Leo B. >* Work: 2912 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC 27609 (919) 850-5011 >* (...!mcnc!aurgate!roberson) || (roberson%aurgate@mcnc.org) || >* (71500.2056@CompuServe.com) || (Chip.Roberson@f112.n151.z1.fidonet.org) >#include