Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!ericg
From: ericg@sco.COM (Editing Reality)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What an Atarian is
Message-ID: <2135@viscous.sco.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 89 18:32:37 GMT
References: <22152@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <10156@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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mars@athena.mit.edu (Andy) wrote in article <10156@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>:
]I'd like to know what the average Atari ST user is like.  The Atari ST

Back in 1980, I was working for a (mostly games) company that put out
software for the Apple ][ and the Atari 800.  With the exception of
the disk drive design, the Atari was a better machine:  The Antic chip
and GTIA chips were exceptional for game writing and screen handling.
The Atari 800 OS was a positively amazing piece of work given the size
of the machine.  Eventually, when I had enough money, I bought one.  It
served well until about 1987, when I decided that I wanted more power
and I wanted to be able to transfer things to and from a UNIX environment.
The choice was either an Amiga or an Atari.  The Amiga offered better
sound and slightly better graphics, but at a much greater price.

The old, massively reliable 8-bit, made me choose Atari.  It has as 
much processing power as I need, good graphics and (with a Tweety Board
installed) good sound, and is easy to develop personal software for.

I pretty much fall into the "Compute for the sake of computing" crowd.

-- 
Eric Griswold  (ericg@sco.COM)
"That's no baby.  That's a Mr. Potatohead"
I do not speak for SCO, I barely have enough room for my own opinions.