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From: wls@suns.UMD.EDU (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Atari ST 1040 versus Mega 2
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Date: 24 Jul 89 16:59:33 GMT
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I have posted this artice one before from stsci.edu but I think it probably
did not get out.

I am fairly new reader of this group and have a dumb basic question:  I am
considering buying an Atari ST.  How much do I gain by spending the extra
money to purchase a Mega 2 rather than an ST 1040, especially since I am not
sure that I can afford the difference?  I am aware of 1) an extra meg. of
memory 2) a blitter chip.  For example, what fraction of software won't run
without the extra memory or how necessary is the blitter chip?

My intended use for this machine is 1) music and 2) a bit of word processing.
I own an Ensoniq ESQ-1 synthesizer and would like a librarian for my patches
and sequences and perhaps later, a bit of music typesetting software.  I will
probably have to build up software a bit of a time as I can afford it.
-- 
Bill Sebok	now at:	Space Telescope Science Institute
		though often posting from: 	Univ. of Maryland, Astronomy
internet:	sebok@stsci.edu			uucp: uunet!stsci.edu!sebok
still reachable at internet			wls@suns.umd.edu