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From: kgschlueter@violet.waterloo.edu (Kevin Schlueter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Amiga and ST Reliability
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Date: 27 Aug 89 05:21:47 GMT
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In article <65.24F67146@metnet.FIDONET.ORG> Mark.Johnson@metnet.FIDONET.ORG (Mark Johnson) writes:
>As for the Amiga's screen graphics: That's okay for DTV, but that it a 
>very limited focus of applications. I'm more interested in DTP, Power 
>spread sheets and databases and wordprocessors.

Well, the nice thing about the Amiga is that you can easily add things like
extra memory, faster CPUS, floating point coprocessors, and large monochrome
(1000x800) monitors.  This helps you to do DTP, spreadsheets, databases
and wordprocessing.  Multitasking is also useful here.

>Additionally if I 
>wanted to use a CLI I could go to work and clunk around on the Z248's 
>and laptops and PS/2's.

It's nice to have a choice though.

>I chose the desktop and prefer to use what I 
>paid for (how many Amiga users actually use the workbench?)
>

Quite a few that I know.  And more will when 1.4 comes out (I've seen an
alpha release of 1.4 and it includes a substantially improved workbench).
You may criticize me for talking vapourware, but Commodore has delivered
OS upgrades 3 times in the past, and there is no reason to expect that they
won't come through this time.

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Kevin Schlueter (kgschlueter@cgl.waterloo.edu)
Dept of Computer Science / Computer Graphics Lab
University of Waterloo