Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!rcte2p From: rcte2p@menudo.uh.edu (Paul Stephen Sears) Subject: Re: Atari-To-Amiga Convert Info Source! Message-ID: <1991Jun25.225219.18618@menudo.uh.edu> Reply-To: rcte2p@menudo.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Organization: University of Houston, College of Technology References: <9106231954.AA23332@cwns2.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1991Jun24.110408.29984@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 22:52:19 GMT peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) presents in article <1991Jun24.110408.29984@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> >In article scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott D. Yelich) writes: [misc stuff deleted] > >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. Isn't that great? A unix box that costs less that an Amiga 3000 and it even has ethernet built in.... Maybe you should have waited longer than 6 years to make your decision... > >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? Yep... Every day... I use computers that have more raw processing power than 100 Amigas running in parallel processing... > >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. Sounds like you didn't look around too much. You can get a used Sun 3 with 4 Meg ram for under $1000... > >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. Of course there is. Buy a NeXT. I can get a NeXT with a 100M HD, 2.88M floopy, a MUCH better user interface, built in sound digitizer, *nix OS (MACH) plus many other ammenities for less than a Amiga 3000.... So please, don't cop the attitude that Amiga is the best buy for the money. Wake up... Steve Jobbs strikes again... (and I could add 32bit color for $1500 more) And, the NeXT has a 68040, display postscipt and a 400dpi laser printer... (I have an Atari 520 and I would still buy one today... of course, I would get my NeXT too...) > >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?" P.S: Here at UH, the monochrome NeXT is $3K with student discount... * Paul Sears * Technology *** |"The greater an individual's power * The University of Houston *** | over others, the greater the evil that * RCTE2P@Jetson.uh.edu * * * | might possibly originate with him." * RCTE2P@menudo.uh.edu * * * | - PROPAGANDA, from A Secret Wish (CD) -- * Paul Sears * Technology *** |"The greater an individual's power * The University of Houston *** | over others, the greater the evil that * RCTE2P@Jetson.uh.edu * * * | might possibly originate with him." * RCTE2P@menudo.uh.edu * * * | - PROPAGANDA, from A Secret Wish (CD)