Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!paone From: paone@aramis.rutgers.edu (Phil Paone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Put up or shut up (was Re: Atari-bashing) Message-ID: Date: 29 Dec 88 17:32:37 GMT References: <474@ur-cc.UUCP> <6847@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <910@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> <1537@plx.UUCP> <2167@nunki.usc.edu> <264@ultb.UUCP> <12835@cup.portal.com> <2216@nunki.usc.edu> <13011@cup.portal.com> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 17 I am very curious about the STacey. From where I am sitting there really doesn't seem to be a market for it. The only reason I can see for a portable is to take your work with you. Well, in the US, very few companies use the ST at all. Now granted, I can see where it might be worth it in Europe where the ST has its buisness image, but even there enough ST's (only 1million) have not been sold to justify it. Just on a side note. There are no hardware flaws with the ST. All the bugs are in software. I remember reading in another article that the hardware was hacked. I don't get it. THe hardware is all off the shelf, the system never crashes or behaves unpredictably due to hardware problems. -- Phil Paone paone@topaz.rutgers.edu !rutgers.edu!topaz.edu!ppaone