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From: ritchie@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (David Ritchie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: man w/ pipe
Message-ID: <15480016@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Date: 15 Jun 91 07:21:40 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.075302.2611@ira.uka.de>
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
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>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.

   The real question is why IBM doesn't have Bob in its character set.

   Things are getting prettty pink around here, IMHO. 

-- Dave Ritchie
ritchie@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com