From: wvleeshh@wg.estec.esa.nl (wim vleeshhouwer)
Subject: Re: A letter to Dave Baggett
Organization: WG/Estec, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 12:33:52 GMT

In article <93010539@ritz.mordor.com>, ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz) writes:
> Michael Olin (molin@ptb.cl.msu.edu) wrote:
> OS/2> dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:
> OS/2> 
> OS/2> >Now we're talking about insecure Atari owners who feel it necessary to
> OS/2> >typecast anyone who buys an 80x86 machine, simply because it runs DOS.
> 
> Yup.
> 
> OS/2> It comes from experience.  I've played with a LOT of different machines
> OS/2> in my day.  (Happens that I sell computers for a living...)  From VIC 20
> OS/2> to 64 to AMiga, from 400 to 800 to XE to ST and TT, from Mac at several
> OS/2> levels and from XT to current dinosaur.  ANd it's a simple choice for
> OS/2> me:  I get the most productivity in the least time with my ST.  And facts
> OS/2> are facts.  You go ahead and buy your $899 '486 with monitor. 
> 
> You must be joking.  Any 486 running a modern OS (not DOS) will blow
> the socks off an ST.  I paid $49 for OS/2 and it does things on my
> "dinosaur" that are simply impossible on an ST.  I can honestly say
> that if I still had my ST it would probably spend 99% of its time
> as a terminal (Uniterm is still the best damn terminal emulator around)
> attached to one of the many free serial ports on my 486.  I can run
> all of my DOS/Windows and OS/2 software (simultaneously) and if I reboot,
> I can run unix and X windows.  Also, there is simply no comparison when
> you look at the available software library.  There are thousands of
> professional developers producing quality software, not to mention 
> many quality shareware and freeware programs for the Intel-based
> boxes and this is growing rapidly.  Compare that to the ever-shrinking
> handful of people that are willing to roll the dice with Atari.  Your
> software options are SHRINKING, not growing and this will get to be
> more of an acute problem as more developers and users jump ship.
> 
> OS/2> WOn't
> OS/2> offend me any at all if you find yourself headed for a service station
> OS/2> in the VERY NEAR FUTURE.  When you buy cheap, you get cheap.  Simple as
> OS/2> that.
> 
> This is coming from someone who bought an Atari computer???  Hehe, this
> is great .signature material folks!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
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With good quality software I suppose you mean allthe crap that is being produced
for these braindead machines like Windows and the like.	Who the hell needs all
that crap anyway. And by the way, the argument that there is lots of SW available
for PC's, so what, most users only use a WordProcessor (like this shit product
called WordPerfect) and maybe Lotus, so what is the use of so much software?
If you don't know what you are talking about, then shut up. I am more than tired
of the bullshit going around about PC's.

Wim Vleeshhouwer
European Space Agency
Noordwijk
Netherlands
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