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From: turner@saber.UUCP (D'arc Angel @ The Houses of the Holy)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Infoworld's Dvorak and the Amiga, and Big, Slimy Atari Ads
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 11:47:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 11:47:42 1985
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> In article <438@gumby.UUCP> foust@gumby.UUCP writes:
> >Has everyone seen the latest ad from Atari on the back of the latest 
> >(Sept. 9) Infoworld?
> > [...]
> >The ad has pictures of a Mac, an AT, and an Amiga (not a picture, a 
> >sketch in blueprint blue) across the top.  The ad says "There's only 
> >one word for these prices: Rip-off."
> > [...]
> >		Atari ST	IBM AT		Mac	Amiga
> >Price		799		4675		2795	1795
> > [...]
> >color		640x200		640x200		None	640x200***
> 
> Personally, I'm amazed they would even release a color display with
> such a strange ratio of vertical to horizontal resolution, never mind
> feature it in the ads.  I mean, the document icons are so tall and
> skinny that they look more like drinking glasses than pieces of paper,
> and the text looks like it's all Courier Ultra Condensed.  Ick.  One of
> the hallmarks of Xerox Star (now called "Macintosh") user interface
> technology is the square-pixel-ratio bitmap.  Hasn't anyone learned
> that it takes more than little pictures to make an interface easy to
> use?
> 
> David D. Levine       (...decvax!tektronix!teklds!davidl)    [UUCP]
>                       (teklds!davidl.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA/CSNET]

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the answer to the question of resolution is right there before your weak
eyes, (hint! check the res in col 2) now as to why IBM chose that res is a
good question. As to how pretty the pictures are, i dont care if they look
like soda straws just so they function properly, keep your eyes on the donut
not the hole etc.
-- 
			god bless Lily St. Cyr
			 -Rocky Horror Picture Show

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