Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro.atari Subject: Re: Re: Atari ST vs. Apple Mac Message-ID: <994@peora.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-May-85 08:54:26 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.994 Posted: Wed May 29 08:54:26 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 30-May-85 06:02:31 EDT References: <123@watmum.UUCP> <2081@sdcc6.UUCP> <347@aurora.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 29 Xref: watmath net.micro.mac:1513 net.micro.atari:837 Last night while sitting trying to figure out how many more months it will be before I can get my memory/disk upgrade, so I can start saving up for a compiler, an ironic and interesting thought occurred to me. This Atari ST... we keep criticizing its low quality compared to the Macintosh. This is probably justified; Apple I suspect put a lot more R&D into the Macintosh; and it's the Commodore Amiga we really have to worry about, anyway, since Apple lost the Turbo Pascal opportunity to Commodore. But, if you read the interviews with the Apple engineers, it appears that the Atari ST is more or less what the Apple engineers started out to build, before the Mac started getting enhanced and improved into what it is now: it had much lower resolution, was generally a smaller machine, and was much less expensive. Now, other than the fact that the Mac is so expensive, I personally think I would rather have the Mac anyday. But it's kind of interesting to consider this possibility that maybe the ST is sort of what the Mac started out as... DISCLAIMER: I like the Mac! I just wish some aspects of it weren't so obstinate... -- Full-Name: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 "V'z bss gb gur Orezbbgurf, gb jngpu gur bavbaf na' gur rryf!" [Jryy, jbhyq lbh oryvrir Arj Wrefrl?]