Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!inmet!ishmael!inmet!rm
From: rm@inmet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: New Owner Needs Help
Message-ID: <148900012@inmet>
Date: 20 Jan 89 12:44:00 GMT
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Nf-From: inmet!rm    Jan 20 07:44:00 1989


The original poster responds:

Although I do agree that there are in general less coresident development
tools available for the ST than for more popular micros, I don't really
think there was any fault in the decision making process that brought me
to this machine.  It might not be apparent to folks who do not use their
ST for MIDI sequencing applications that the ST is the most popular platform
for off-the-shelf sequencing software.  In my case, as I'm sure is the
case with most musicians, I spent a lot of time shopping for the software
package I wanted, and then bought whatever platform it would run on.
So for me, this thing is an appliance.  The small tasks I would like to do
outside my purchased software are by no means necessary to my application-
they would offer minor conveniences but I'd be just as happy without.
And they are the kind of applications which are well within the scope of
even the most rudementary Basic interpreters.  But if I could find better
and more complete tools for free/cheap then, hey, so much the better.

Actually I must admit that the apparent lack of development tools for the
ST was rather appealing to me.  I spend 8 hours a day writing compilers
and am just as happy to go home and not have to do any more programming.  8-)
      
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