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From: fraga@faculty.cs.ubc.ca (Eric S Fraga)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What an Atarian is
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Date: 7 Apr 89 17:29:19 GMT
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In article <890405-104637-2664@Xerox> Cooper.osbuNorth@Xerox.com.osbunorth writes:
> ...
>All of this I see as part of the demise of Atari. From what I can
>determine, people seem to use the machine for hacking or for games.
> ...
>So, all of you out there who are doubtless denying all of the above - let's
>hear from you. What do you USE your ST for? Those of you who are authors of
>USER oriented software - let's hear what you're doing, and tell us about
>your market. Those of you who are USERS, let's hear what you're using, and
>what for.


I don't understand how my OWNING an Atari, no matter how I use it,
could possibly be part of the demise of Atari...  but never mind.

To answer your question:

Use (in order of		Software used
decreasing priority)

As a terminal			UW, Gulam, and Uniterm
Word Processing			1st Word, MicroEmacs
Preparing Examples for		Sozobon C
  class I teach
Serious programming		Sozobon C with Gulam
  (I do most of my
  work on a SUN so Atari
  is a tad slow but that's
  why *I* am waiting for
  the TT!)
  
Anyway, like I said above, I can't see how I contribute to the
demise of Atari.  On the other hand, I know that I don't
contribute to the success of Atari (except maybe by telling
people I am happy with my computer if and only if they ask) as I
am still using my 520 st bought in Sept 85 and have bought a
total of two software pieces (Developer's kit and Minix) in the
last almost four years.  I use free software, and that's the
way I like it.  (1st word used to be free many moon ago)

I have NO games.  Can't justify spending $$ on a game when I get
bored of it in about two days.

If Atari brings out a piece of hardware I like (the TT?), I will
support them by buying it.  That's my contribution.  But only if
it meets my ends.  I don't particularly care what happens to
Atari itself (don't own any of their stock) and if they go down
the tubes, I'll still keep using my 520 until something better
comes along.

'nuff said.

ta for now,
eric

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