Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!simvax.labmed.umn.edu!davidli From: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Re: Man w/ pipe Message-ID: <1991Jun10.155237.1@simvax.labmed.umn.edu> Date: 10 Jun 91 15:52:37 GMT References: <1991Jun6.131017.12110@ira.uka.de> <91157.163954SYSPMZT@GECRDVM1.BITNET> <3188@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> Sender: news@cs.umn.edu (News administrator) Organization: Flying Taoist Graphics Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: simvax.labmed.umn.edu In article <3188@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>, neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes: > Well this Bob Dobbs character (actually 4) is just another example of Atari > wastage ... Atari should have put something *useful* in there in > the first place. Darnded right! Atari really screwed up. Why didn't they use the IBM character set like a REAL computer would? Come to think of it, why isn't the Atari ST an IBM compatible computer? Gosh, it makes me so mad to think of the large number of *useful* things that could have been done with the ST if only it'd been an IBM compatible. Grow up. There wasn't an official standard for all 256 characters back in '85 -- and there still isn't today. It's only a waste if you believe you *deserve* more than what you supposedly purchased with eyes wide open. -- David Paschall-Zimbel davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu