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From: davidli@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Dave Meile)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Random Atari Bashing
Message-ID: <10968@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Date: 25 Jan 89 23:07:33 GMT
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In article <1575@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> rob@raksha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) writes:
>Uh, sorry, but I don't care *WHY* they aren't sending these cards, all
>I observe is that they are not sending them.

I owned an Apple ][+ - //e for many years.  I never received any cards from
Apple telling me about upgrades to the system.  So what are you complaining
about.  Heck, no computer company I know of sends such things (unless you pay
them $$$ for an update service).

You're simply performing some random "bashing" there.

>Sorry again, I know what GDOS is, and the point stands.  They sold me
>a machine with an incomplete OS, and did not think it necessary to
>rectify the matter.

What you *really* mean is that you purchased a machine with what you considered
as an incomplete OS ... that was your choice.  It would be nice to have GDOS in
ROM, I suppose, if you really wanted your system to be all that slow.  I'd
suggest you take the matter up with DRI, and then Atari.

>>And, finally, if you think you NEED a coprocessor
>
>Yes, I do.
>
>>contact GFA or
>>talk to your German friends. That one is for 520/1040 machines.
>
>And get something no compiler will support.  Right.

Did you check out the Atari ST before you bought it?  I mean, if you *really*
needed a math coprocessor, why didn't you purchase an AT-clone in the first
place?  

Instead, we are subject to a harangue which tends to indicate (to me at least)
that you didn't know the first thing about buying a microcomputer in the
first place.

>SR

My suggestion - sell you ST.  You're never going to be happy with it.  Buy a
nice, safe, AT-clone and go complain about it on comp.sys.ibm.pc.

-- Dave Meile