Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Atari vs GS Message-ID: <8803062304.aa05651@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: 7 Mar 88 04:06:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 "Jay G. Heiser" writes: >Don't know about CP/M, but the program, PC-Ditto, runs on a factory-stock >Atari ST and reads standard 3.5" MS-DOS diskettes. It is about 80-90% >slower than a PC, but the price is right. Ummm.. I trust you mean the emulation runs 80 to 90% as FAST as an 8088 PC; 80 to 90% slower would be between 10 and 20% of a PC's speed (a rate that would make a 300 baud terminal look quick!). At 10% of a PC's speed even I might be able to bring Flight Simulator safely to earth. >Just over $1000 buys a 1 Meg Atari with a drive & color monitor. How can >the //GS (or the //e) compete with that. And of course there's that VAST base of games, business, and educational software which grows larger by the day.... ;-) If purely price logic appeals to you, consider a Laser 128 (a pretty capable //e clone for even less than an Atari ST). --------------------- Disclaimer: I like my opinions better than my employers anyway... (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut