Re: [MiNT] Re: MagiC News(MagiC 7, New Webbrowser, (fwd)

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>]

On 8.12.1999, Lonny Pursell <atari@bright.net> wrote:

> I tend to agree with this oddly enough.

Sounds good, but I know that some people here disagree.

Note also that, although I openly and objectively launched this
question right here a few days back, we only had a handfull of
answers, most of them pointing towards something along the line
of "I still have a few ST and MEGA here, it would be nice if I
could have it all on those for a few more years."

While I am aware that the vast majority of users are still people
who bought themselves a cheap ST to make music (they just happen
to have run into STiK when they typed "Atari" in Yahoo!), those
people usually have some Nullenium running IE or Netscape to make
the most of their Networking needs.

Anyhow, as I previously offered, there are enough TT and Falcons
for grabs on E-bay these days that anyone still serious about a
full-time Atari usage can join in and discover what they've been
missing.

Notice also, within the same thread, that ASH is aiming squarely
towards more powerfull clones;  Ethernet cards simply don't exist
on old ST (okay, maybe if you count the hard-to-find DMA version
of the BioNet), neither do PCI busses and SoundBlaster drivers.

So, what's stoping us from moving on as well??


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 08:43:53 GMT
> From: Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@funkyware.atari.org>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
> Subject: Re: MagiC News(MagiC 7, New Webbrowser,
> 
> There is still a point where you should _expect_ to upgrade to
> more powerfull offerings of the platform - like the TT/Falcon, at
> minimum.  People _cannot_ have SSL-enabled browsers that access
> their bank account within 4 MB of ram, nor to run SSH on less
> than 68020, for instance.

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