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From: s37837k@saha.hut.fi (Jari Lehto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: advice please - Atari-ST or Amiga
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Date: 8 Feb 91 03:45:04 GMT
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In article <26769@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes:
>I have an Atari ST with a JRI 4096 color board.  Big deal, I have 4096
>color pallette.  I can't display all of them at once like I can on my
>Amiga 3000.

Hey, get a TT or MegaSTE 4 if you are going to do comparings like that.
I am not either comparing my 16MHz 4Mb ST to C64!!!!

>Amiga is doing quite well overseas.  Atari is doing well from what I
>hear, but I've also heard that they are failing in support and are
>being sold mostly as game machines.

In Europe, especially Germany, and UK, and France too, Atari is doing
wery well indeed. Atari is the #1 computer in Germany. And #2 in Finland.
#1 is Amiga, over 80% of users are kids playing games, but almost the
same percentage of Atari-users use their machines for studying & productivity.

>Atari in the US has almost no support at all.

That is a well-known and unfortunate fact. Hope MegaSTE and TT will go better.

>Atari take advantage of the US market?! HAHAHAHAHA!  Don't be so absurd!
>You know full well that it will never happen.  Atari has lost their chance.
>Software companies are stopping their support, dealers are switching computers
>or going out of business...How many Atari owners live near an Atari dealer?

A 3000 never did those headlines as TT and MegaSTE! If you keep up laughing
like that in here, we'll laugh you out! Kill!

>Here again is the words of someone who has never had a multitasking
>machine. First of all, the Amiga OS multitasks, but that is probably
>what you meant.  You can't 'add on' multitasking to the ST, so stop
>decieving this poor guy who is trying to find out information. 

Have ever used Atari under Unix? I have. Compared to that, Amiga's
multitasking is like dancing in a chamber full of sticky honey...

>I suggest anyone who is thinking of buying an ST look at the support
>available for both machines and DO use both machines.  Take it from
>someone who owns both...You DON'T want to buy an Atari.
>
I also use both machines, I am even a co-sysop in a well known Amiga-BBS.
My opinion is that unless you have loads of money, you can't get yourself
a Amiga that has much future ahead.

Get TT or MegaSTE. Or Mac. Or 386/486 +Win3 (or Unix & X-Win).

Atari-users do it firST, and are hoTTest in STEady markets...

			Jartsu


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