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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Nasty letter from Atari backer!
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Date: 8 Apr 90 19:17:58 GMT
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In article <10447.261b26d5@zeus.unomaha.edu>, fh007@zeus.unomaha.edu writes:
> From:	ZEUS::WINS%"<jk44+@andrew.cmu.edu>"  5-APR-1990 05:26:44.62
> To:	FH007
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> Subj:	Re: Amiga/Atari help
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> From: John Knight <jk44+@andrew.cmu.edu>
> To: fh007@zeus.unomaha.edu
> Subject: Re: Amiga/Atari help
> 
> 1. It'll be a cold day in hell before C= gets a real '030 box w/ UNIX out the
> door. At least Atari has announced a UNIX '030 box. C= is too embarrased
> about their latest "creation" to even show it to the outside world.
> 
> 2. The Amiga chipset is nothing to brag about. When in use, they just bog down
> the CPU with bus contention. In addition, they are *much* slower than the
> equivalent ST chips. The ST blitter, for example, is about 2 times faster
> doing equivalent operations. The ST DMA chip does floppy and HD access from
> 2 to 10 times faster than anything C= an put out. Also, Atari has seperate
> chips, so accessing the HD won't slow down the blitter.
> 
> One last thing, the ST double sided drive can hold 900K, not the lesser 880K
> that Amiga holds. At least get your facts and figures right. Also, you might
> get a more responsive audience on comp.sys.amiga than on comp.sys.atari.st.
> 
> Jack Knight
> flames -> /dev/null
> 
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> 
> this is what I responded to!!!!