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Subject: Re: What an Atarian is
Summary: Flame wars?
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Date: 29 Mar 89 03:30:44 GMT
References: <22152@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <10156@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: orc@pell.UUCP (David L. Parsons)
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In article <10156@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> mars@athena.mit.edu (Andy) writes:
>Why would any of you buy the ST when the IBM has more
>support, the Apple has more innovation, and the Amiga more power?

  I preferred the 68000, I couldn't afford the Apple, and I don't do
 graphics.  The ST was a good cheap _fast_ 68000 box with a nice monochrome
 monitor.  Apple makes better software, but fortunately there are ST people
 who have hacked Mac compatability onto the ST so that I can play Cheapo-Mac
 in the comfort of my own home. And of the three 68000 boxes that were
 available in '85, the 68000 was the fastest (remember:  I don't do
 graphics, so it's just a matter of clock speed.)

  And there are no religions based on the Atari ST, unlike the little cults
 associated with the Mac, the Amiga, and the IBM.  Now that most of my
 initial enthusiasm for the ST is long dead, it's very nice to not have
 people praising misfeatures as the second coming of Christ.


   -david parsons
   -orc@pell.uucp