Xref: utzoo alt.religion.computers:1143 gnu.misc.discuss:558 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: GNUclear Warfare Message-ID: <4791@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 18 Dec 89 14:07:00 GMT References: <2558@flatline.UUCP> <4639@sugar.hackercorp.com> <4ZW1ijS00WBKE1qh5C@andrew.cmu.edu> <4774@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1989Dec18.052331.4514@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 27 In article <1989Dec18.052331.4514@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes: > I will define "strictly limited in utility" to mean more limited than > comparable commerical software. I submit Uniterm, a terminal program > for the Atari ST. Given the large number of modems in this world, obviously > they are not used only by computer geeks. Terminal programs are oriented towards computer geeks. They're spillover tech, but they're one of the most used items on any nerd's list of programs. > There is also a spreadsheet program for the ST which includes a full > set of math functions plus graphing, with a full GEM interface. This means > it's better than the original Visicalc. However, since I'm merely > destroying your *any* claim, I shan't submit it. Is it up to Lotus-123 level, or is it merely better than other Atari ST program? > By the way, Atari didn't get hurt that much in the DRI/Apple suit. They > didn't have to change their GEM version one bit. DRI's later GEM > versions have this awful desktop, while we still have a nice one. Yeh, but one of the big things about the ST was that it was a kindler, gentler, IBM-PC. (AN IBM with no segments!) That's no longer true. -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' 'U` "I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape somewhere"