Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:593 comp.sys.atari.st:34964 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sunic!fuug!funic!santra!saha.hut.fi!s37837k From: s37837k@saha.hut.fi (Jari Lehto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: advice please - Atari-ST or Amiga Keywords: clueless st users Message-ID: <1991Feb12.090316.12669@santra.uucp> Date: 12 Feb 91 09:03:16 GMT References: <1991Feb9.213904.782@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Feb10.023415.8641@santra.uucp> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Reply-To: s37837k@saha.hut.fi (Jari Lehto) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, FINLAND Lines: 54 In article jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg) writes: > >Heehee...Atari couldn't do the port themselves? Atari CAN'T do well in >North America. They've shot their reputation all to hell here. And they're >loosing it in Europe. Atari is the ONLY company that I know of that fucked >upward compatability up because they used an illegal instruction. (With the >exception of Tandy.) Laugh it up, jerk. Can you do it? Why not use a third party if they can do it better? Being an Amiga-user does not give you the right to insult the name of Atari, even that I kind of agree your opinion. I don't either have any right to insult Amiga, and why to insult A GOOD MACHINE? >Well, for me, and most Amiga users (if not all) multitasking blends right in. >I couldn't stand a single-tasking machine, and thats one of the MANY reasons >why I won't be caught dead owning a PC or Mac. I wouldn't get a PC (486 & UNIX is an exception) either. Mac, maybe, multifinder is good enough for me, and Mac definitely is poverful enough for most of us! I would get myself a A3000, if it would not be so hell expen- sive in here. (Finland) But NeXT and Sun and Atari TT ARE real competitors! >Yes, but it costs. We get it FREE, and it works. WHERE it's made is no >concern, unless you refer to the Soviet Union, where the public technological >level is near zilch. Free Amiga? Where? I want one now!!! Do not even mention Soviet Union here, we have enough trouble because it being our neighbour... >To actually display the video/sound doesn't require a fast CPU. Just lots and >lots of RAM. The rendering, etc requires the RAM. If we need RAM, we go and get RAM! >Really? Neither the ST or Amiga is word processing machines, DTP, maybe but >The ST's best DTP program is also out for the Amiga. Calamus for Amiga? Then you definitely need better display than the standard Amiga has... Calamus for Amiga? Haven't heard such thing... >When the '040's are available in mass quantities, an Amiga will eat a >NeXT or SPARCstation I for lunch. Well see about that! Amiga with 040 will be so expensive that it will never be a real alternative... NeXT is very reasonable priced, it is cheaper than A3000!!! (If I get myself a NeXT here, it will cost about 18.000,- FIM. I can't get a good-enough A3000 package under 23.000,- FIM...) Jartsu *** Jari Lehto, jartsu@otax.hut.fi, s37837k@saha.hut.fi ***