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From: carter@cat27.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter)
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Subject: Re: advice please - Atari-ST or Amiga
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Date: 6 Feb 91 20:58:29 GMT
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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk

Writes: ...

	In my opinion, STs are nice, simple machines with a good monochrome
display and a nice, but limited OS; Amiga is a more complex machine
with a powerfull, state-of-the-art OS and far better colour capabilities.
And when regarding current sales figures, Amiga is the machine of
the future, I wouldn't too much on Ataris in this aspect.

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Notice the third word in the paragraph...OPINION.  Obviously this man 
never EVER owned an ST.  I would contend, that after the equavalent ad ons
such as a color board/graphics card, in Europe which there are many,
the ST would look just as nice as an AMIGA machine.  

As for sales, thats funny, a German friend on my floor says thats all there
are in Germany is Atari's with a few Amiga's sprinkled here and there???

Atari has very healthy markets abroad and just like commodore, Atari has
yet to take advantage of the USA market.

If you want to do word processing, I hardly think you would have time to
play a game at the same time.  As for multi tasking, Atari multitasks
REALISTICALLY.  That is, if you want to print something out, or download
something or do something else like play music that doesn't require
your constant interaction there are plenty of options available to help you 
do these things in the background so you don't waste time so you can do
something else..like play games.

Really, multitasking is WAY overplayed by AMIGA people.  They are not
the only people who have multi tasking machines, its just that workbench
supports this option automatically.  While on the ST its an add on.

---Gregory