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From: louie@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari,net.micro.cbm
Subject: Atari 520ST vs. Commodore Amiga
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 14:02:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 14:02:48 1985
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I just read the article in the August 1985 issue of Personal Computing on 
the Commodore Amiga.  There is little detail about the guts of the machine
and the hardware. 

All I've seen about the Atari 520ST has been in the net.micro.atari
newsgroup.  A little bit more about the hardware and the guts, but not
much.

As you might expect, I'm in the market for one of these two machines, but
have very little to go on.  I know that I don't really want a Mac, both
because of the price and the closed architecture.  (I don't want to start
any Mac vs. anything else flames, please!).  The article on the Amiga
says that it has "true multitasking", what ever that is.

Has anyone on the net made any point by point comparisons of these two
machines?  Apparently the 520ST isn't vaporware anymore, and hopefully
the Amiga will begin to appear on dealer's shelves soon.  I'm interested
in what the nuts and bolts of the hardware are, and what the provided
software and operating system do for/to you.
-- 
Louis A. Mamakos WA3YMH   University of Maryland, Computer Science Center
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