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From: exodus@uop.edu (G.Onufer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why the Atari ST "flame" was posted up...
Message-ID: <1244@uop.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 88 00:13:13 GMT
References: <12045@brl-adm.ARPA> <463@csvax.liv.ac.uk> <1312@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <478@csvax.liv.ac.uk>
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Summary: And this guy....well, read!

In article <478@csvax.liv.ac.uk>, sqrkl@csvax.liv.ac.uk writes:
> > 	I didn't ask for it.  You are certainly entitled to your
> > 	opinions, but WHY would you post this to comp.sys.atari.st?
>   Anyway, if you want to see a GOOD machine, forget the Amiga, Macintosh and
> Atari ST - buy an Acorn Archimedes...I've been programming in ARM (RISC) code
> for a couple of months now and it is BEAUTIFUL (so's the Archimedes - puts
> all other machines below a MicroVAX 3500 to shame).


I wouldn't worry too much about this guy.  He mailed me after I flamed him...
in fact, he is still mailing me.  His opions are semi-unusual:

-Anything that resembles a C-Shell is terrible
-If it isn't VMS DCL, it isn't usable
-VMS is the most user-friendly system available (or close to it)
-GnuEmacs isn't a decent editor
-The Acorn is the world's best computer--   [ME: Where is it?]
-Unix commands are too cryptic to be usable
-BASIC (albeit a modern semi-structured BASIC) is the programming language
 of choice				    [ME:  Why not use PASCAL?]
-C is a terrible language, see above
-There are no decent compilers for the ST   [Ever see MWC 2.0 or above?]
-Only his opinions mean anything

See?  No problems here.  Obviously not a hacker.

[These opions have been re-worded but contain the same thoughts he expressed
to me.  My comments are in brackets containing the word "ME"]

He does claim an Archimedes obtains 4 MIPS for somewhere around 800 pounds
sterling... is that around 1600 dollars?  I forgot the exchange rate!!


G.Onufer