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From: jsp@sp7040.UUCP (John Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari 1040ST availability
Message-ID: <281@sp7040.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 00:50:19 GMT
References: <424@lakesys.UUCP> <53@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Organization: Unisys, Salt Lake City, UT
Lines: 30
Summary: Buying a 520 instead of a 1040

In article <53@lzaz.ATT.COM>, bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (BRUCE SZABLAK) writes:
> In article <424@lakesys.UUCP>, joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso) writes:
> > I intended to order an Atari 1040 ST color system today.  I have been
> > slavishly saving my money for months and months now...
> 
> A suggestion: Buy a 520 and use the left over cash to buy the software
> that will make your box more than an expensive paper weight. You HAVE
> priced the software your going to need?

	An admiral Idea except for one little thing, WHAT IF I RUN OUT
OF MEMORY.  Well the ST is not a vertual machine.  That means you have
to have available whatever memory you are going to use.  One might just
think that 512K for a single user machine is a GODs plenty.  Well its not.

	I have a deskcart plugged into the cartridge port and do a lot
of work with Mark Williams C running with Beckmeyers Multi-Tasking C
Shell.  Several times I have run up against the wall of not enough memory
with my 1040 ST.  Then I have to get rid of the ram disk and set so my temp
space is somewhere on the hard drive.  This slows down compiles quite a bit.

	My point is if you ever expect to expand the machine to really do
anything other than be an expensive "lets-look-at-the-graphics" toy,
you might as well plan for the future and puchase the 1040 now.  If you plan
to use it for the kids and a toy, fine the 520 is dandy.

				--  John  --

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