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A Letter to a Friend about Staying
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Al F asoldt
I am
SOil)'
to hear about your decision to abandon the
ST
am tempted to
try
to dissuade
you,
but instead I'd like
to tell
you
about my own disillusionment over the
ST
and
Atari
in
geneml and what became of it.
About
a
year ago, I'd finally reached the bottom
of
my
willingness to wait
for Atari. I was sick of reading about
and
hearing about
all
the new and wonderful things that
were
going on in the other
camps
- the PC and Mac.
By
the
end
of1991
,
I'd made up my mind. I
was switching to
my PC,
and leaving my S1' for the occasional fun prognll'Tl
and game,
or maybe for running a BBS.
So
I got
smart.
Instead'ofmoving to Windows,
which I
already knew
would
not satisty an ST user, I bought
GeoWorks.
the first
chip in the series,
the 8088. Instead of creating new
chips
that didn't have the failings
of the 8088,
Intel decided
to
keep them all compatible.
So what?
Well, for starters,
those
chips, even
the 80486, address
memory in
a
stmnge
sort
of
way. They gmb only
64K at
a
time.
This
is
called
a memory
segment.
If
you
have ever
looked
at
the length
of".COM"
files
-
the standard PC
executahle prognlll1, compamble
to an
S1' ".TOS"
file -
you
may have noticed
something odd:
None ofthem are
more than
64K
in
length.
'Ihey
can never
be longer than
that.
Not now, not in the future.
'Ihat's
because no'PC, no
matter how new or
old, can address
more than 64K of
memory
at
once;
it
just can't,
no matter
what else
has been
done
to make it
fast
or sleek.
You are surely
noting
that this
isjust
IIJOth
ofthe
memory limit that
you
are
accustomed
to hearing
about in
the
PC world -the 640K
limit.
Yes, a PC can
only address
64K at a
time; the
640K
limit is the
standard
maximum
for
all
the memory that
can
be
addressed when
the
segments
are
pulled
to and from
RAM
one at
a
time.
This standard
has
been bent
and
massaged and
altered
by
very
clever
progmmming,
so that
most
modem DOS systems
can now
allow
the
CPU
to
address something
like 700K or
even
more
-
but only allcr
a
painful process
or trial
and
error, to see
what
memory
can
be redistributed.
How,
then, can
a
PC
work with a
pmgnll'Tl larger than
64K? It
uses
".
EXt::"
files,
which can be 600K
or more in
Icngth,
An ",t::Xt::"
prognuTI tells the
PC
to load it 64K at a
time.
And
this means that
an 8
mHz
PC, which
has the same
processor speed as a standard S'I:
is nowhere near
as
fast
in
actual
memory
access
and
execution. A
16-mHz
ST is
compardble
to
a 33-mHz
PC;
a 40-mHz SST
(from Gadgets
by Small)
cannot
be matched by any
PC, even a 66-mHz
clock-douhled Hewlett-Packard.
'Ihe
laws of physics tell
us so, as
do the benchmarks, because
of the way
the ST's
Motorola chip works,
It
has
a
flat memory model,
which
is
fancy talk for the
way
it addresses memory linearly,
'Ihe
ST
can gmb 4 megs at a
time; the
Falcon can
gmb 14 to 16
megs
at a
time.
You
have heard
about
PC
's
with oodles ofextm
memory, no
doubt. PC's
must have
an 80286 or
higher
CPU
to
address
that
extm
memory, unless they use
a
hank-
switching technique
pioneered by
Apple
in the
Apple
II and
used by
Atari very etH:ctivcly
in the 130Xt::,
Windows cannot
make use
orthat bank-switched
memory,
which
is
why Windows will
not run
adequately
on
an oldcr
Pc.
Windows
must use
what is called extended
meillory. which
takes
advantage ofa
property of
a funny thing happened on
my way out the door when I
tried to abandon Atari.... But
it was more than funny;
it was
eerze.
"
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UeoWorks is
amazing.
There's
no doubt
about
it. It
can
make any PC run rings around Windows.
It
multitasks
with
any PC,
even
the oldest and slowest model. Ifthere
were any
single gmphical interface that makes a PC behave like
a
computer should behave, it
would
have to he UeoWorks.
As you know,
fbr a decade or more I have used
Ataris
professionally. I did
all
my
writing on
them
-
first, an
800XL, then
a
130XE, then a 576K 130Xt::, then a
520S'I:
then a I 040S'I: then a
4-meg
1040S'I: and now a
4-meg,
16-
mHz 1040ST 1 used them for many other purposes, too. 1
did that
because
I like them; I like the
way
they respond. I
guess they
would
be the
sports cars oftht:
PC
world.
I like
sports cars,
I
got
deep into UeoWorks. But within
a
fl:w
:T1onths
I
found myself writing
again
on my S'[ I found myself
organizing my next book
on
my
S't:
I found myselflcaming
new
ST
progmms,
enjoying
them, looking for others, hoping
to find
some of
the
software
I
would
have liked to have had
on the Pc.
I'd like to
say.
"'Ihen
a funny
thing happened
on
my
way
out
the door
whcn
I tried to ahandon
Atari.
..
...
l3ut it
was
N
~
more than funny; it
was eerie.
I like the
ST
too much; I
love
Qj
the
ST
too much. It's not just
a syrupy crush.
The
kind of
.0
love that I have is based
on
some
cold,
hard realities.
~
o
'Ihe
~T
is not like
a
Pc. It is
a
little like
a
Mae
and a
little like an Amiga,
Let's
start
at
the beginning.
GI
PC's use 80x86
series CPU
chips,
either
from Intel,
their
1/1
::l
inventor,
or
Ii'om chip makers
who
have
cloned the CPU's.
All
80x86
chips must follow the
same
internal architecture
of
effort is made
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