Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari no-support?
Summary: how about a fraternity?
Message-ID: <434@mks.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 21:55:27 GMT
References: <148leigh@byuvax.bitnet> <2064@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <196@bdt.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <196@bdt.UUCP>, david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) writes:
> My friends who program "real" computers really gave me a hard time when I
> started with Atari and the ST.  Now everything they warned me about seems
> to be coming true.   You see, I used to be a real programmer.  No really.
> No foolin'.  Now on my resume I'll have to say "well see I was on an
> extended vacation for those three years.  No I never programmed an Atari
> before".

Well, you know, the one thing that very few people seem to be knocking
is the actual ST hardware.  It has occasional problems (chip sockets,
etc.), but is generally pretty good.  Nice video.  A keyboard layout I
like.  Portable when it has to be. 

So, maybe all those who agree should also agree on which OS we are going
to use on that hardware instead of the current one.  In my mind, it's a
tossup between OS9 and MINIX.  Idris is out there, but I think it's too
pricey.  Any others?

Of course, we'll need to help each other.  There are already support
groups for OS9 (BIX, CI$, etc.), and I suppose the MINIX Usenet group
will grow once the ST version is available.  Shall we all agree to meet
over there?

By the way, anybody know the release date for MINIX ST?

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