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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
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Subject: Re: What next for the ST?
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Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 23:35:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 23:35:57 1986
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> >When is the PC industry gonna "Grow up" and adopt even minimal standards?
> >Does IBM have to do everything??!!!
> 
> Don't praise IBM. They have not produced "state of the art" personal
> computers yet. What they have come out with is a family of horrible
> personal computers for abominable prices. Maybe their new RISC machine
> will finally be a good product, but that is not an attempt to establish
> standards.
> 
> 					Mark Galassi
> 				...!tektronix!reed!rosalia

This attitude really bothers me. Why does one camp of computer user feel
that they have to put down another camp? Or feel that "our" computer is
better than "theirs?" 

I own both an IBM XT (well, "portable," but close enough...same motherboard)
and an Atari 520ST. They are both nice computers...one can do some things the
other can't, and visa versa. (For example, the Atari has a faster processor and
obviously better graphics than the IBM, but I like the programming environment
in the IBM better than that of the Atari.)

When are computer users gonna "Grow up"?


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                           --- Rob DeMillo 
                               Madison Academic Computer Center
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     "...I suppose you find the concept of a 
         robot with an artificial leg amusing?"

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