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Subject: Yet more on the Atari 520ST
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 10:42:21 EDT
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I appreciate the interesting news and rumors. I hope the imminent
release of the 520ST is real and not hype. A recent article in the New
York Times casts a little doubt on this, but you can be sure the
hackers of the world are routing for Tramiel.
I have spoken to a couple of independent individuals who have worked
with the prototypes. You get a hand-built machine with virtually no
documentation to back it up. According to one source, many software
oem's are writing their applications under GEM on the IBM with hopes of porting
}ithem to the Atari because their is so little help available in the way
of hard facts from Atari.
The other comment I hear from more than one fellow is that it is a lot
easier to type commands at an A> prompt than to go through the
nuisance of the GEM interface, both on the IBM and the Atari. I
wonder if it is of any value to those not afraid to use a computer and
to learn about its operating system? I guess the same could be said of
the Mac interface.