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From: tinyguy@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Yeo-Hoon BAE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Amiga v ST
Message-ID: <4031@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 19 Sep 90 21:28:58 GMT
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Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
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>Yuk, just because it's got a copper and super-flickery modes doesn't
>mean its better.
>
 Copper is better than nothing.
 Super flickery mode also happens to be a very nice way to get 640x400
 resolution on a standard(non multi-sync) monitor. I'm sure lots of
 people can't afford one, so there you are. Infact, I have a multu-sync
 without the flicker fixer, but I can reset the initial color settings
 so that almost all the flicker disappears.

>In order to have a decent Amiga system you need loads of memory ( to run
>more than one program at a time), need more than one disk drive or a
>hard drive and a monitor to access the migrane-modes.
>
 True if you are doing lots of animation/ray tracing, but I think that's
true for any machine. Amiga certainly demands less then OS2, Windows 3.0
or Multi Finder. One meg is usually enough to run say, a Wordprocessor
and a modem software.

>Personally, I've never needed one of AmigaDos' biggest selling points -
>the multi-tasking, although I realise that all Amiga owners play
>Populous while they run massive ray-tracing sessions. (Well, actually
>you can't do both those things on the Amiga at one time but we'll keep
>quiet about that so that people think you can).
>
Aha! You think you don't need it. I personally thought that way also,
but since then, I've been using this 'feature' all the time, without 
realizing it. For example, I use a terminal program to connect to Unix.
Usually, compiling takes long time for a big program. I can 'switch'
to my Amiga side, letting the Unix continue whatever it's doing, I can
get on with my own stuff. Also what do you do when you are copying
lots of files? I simply open another DOS window, and edit a file, for
example. The possibilities are endless. Once you are used to the 
multi-tasking env. you won't live without it(well...)
I think I read something about TOS getting an upgrade so that it can
also multi-task. Try it, then tell me if you don't need it!