Secondly, before I get many more blasts, I use both my Atari 8 bit machines and
my IBM XT primarily for wordprocessing, secondarily for telecommunications and
thirdly for spreadsheets. For both wordprocessing and telecommunications, the
Atari is equal to or better than the XT. For the amount of spreadsheets that I
use, the Atari is just as good as the XT, but I don't create spreadsheets nine
yards wide with an infinite amount of forulas, etc. I still maintain that for
general office type work (i.e. wordprocessing and light spreadsheeting) that
the Atari 8 bit is as good as the XT. (Have you ever looked at the lettering
that a color monitor IBM gives out? Huge letters with many layers of bland
pixels!) The letters that Atarwriter Plus may be a little crude, but they are
as readable as the XT, IN MY OPINION! I have not personally seen OMNIVIEW
letters so cannot comment, I have seen Letter Perfect and PaperClip and they
are all as legible or better then the XT color letters.
If you are extensively into programming (in c or other) then probably most of
the comments that I hear are correct, the ST outperforms both IBM and Atari 8
bit machines. Certainly the ST is superior to the 8 bit for CAD. If we are
going to get into a general micro discussion, however, I agree that we should
switch to net.micro.
--Bill Dippert--
--Bill Dippert--
Some years back I read an article (possibly in COMPUTE!) regarding the
use of a servo via the joystick ports. The interesting part of the article was
the explanation, and subsequent programs, allowing the joystick port to be
accessed for *output* from BASIC. If anyone has this article or relevant ones, I would be very appreciative. The end goal is to run a UART-based switching
system for the Atari 800.
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