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From: rob@raksha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Random Atari Bashing
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Date: 27 Jan 89 02:09:33 GMT
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In article <10968@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> ftg!dwm@stag.UUCP (David Meile) writes:
>>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.  

Yes, it was my choice, in the expectation that the matter would be
rectified.  Call me naive.

>It would be nice to have GDOS in
>ROM, I suppose, if you really wanted your system to be all that slow. 

ROM, disk, I don't care.  The point is that Atari should have done something.

>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?  

Ever heard of changing situations?

>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.

Why should I, or anyone, care what misguided indications you seek to
conjure up?

>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.

Wrong.  I am more happy with my ST than I would be with an AT clone.
I guess in your world that means that I have to sing praise and
halleluja only?

Rob Carriere
PS  If anyone else wants to flame me, let them feel free, but let's
please do it via email.