Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Atari-To-Amiga Convert Info Source! Message-ID: <1991Jun24.110408.29984@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX References: <9106231954.AA23332@cwns2.INS.CWRU.Edu> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 11:04:08 GMT In article scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott D. Yelich) writes: > Anyway, my ST does what I need a computer to do. Most people don't > have the money nor the need to get a super home computer. Well then, it's good that the Amiga 500 costs $500. > For years now I have had people ask me about which personal computer to > purchase. Amiga. I pushed the machine before I ever got one. I put off buying a personal computer for 6 years waiting for something like the Amiga to come out. There is still, 6 years later, *NO* other personal computer with an operating system that satisfies my *minimum* functionality requirements, unless you go out and buy a UNIX box. And at that it's one of the cheapest machines out there. > MY atari does what I need it to do. You're satisfied, but have you used a real computer? I've been there. I borrowed an IBM clone for a while, then an Atari ST. It's called shopping around. The productivity improvement from reliable, efficient, and responsive multitasking is amazing. There really is a basic, fundamental difference between the Amiga and the rest. Your arguments make good sense when comparing Ataris and Mac and IBMs, but there *is* something better. And *you* don't have to wait 6 years to find it, like I did. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"