
Students Guide to Information
Technology
Excel, or the WordPerfect word processor, or Microsoft's Word, to
name but
a
few, then you
can
buy any of the machines I've mentioned.
For most computer tasks, it makes little difference which hardware
you buy - it's the software that counts.
And whatever the hardware merits of the Macintosh or the Atari
ST,
they do not have as much software available as the PC. Which is
one reason why some 10 million PCs have been sold world-wide,
compared to a fraction ofthat number for other makes. For example,
although the Commodore Amiga is a remarkable machine, it has so
little serious software available for i