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From: knnngt@ukma.UUCP (Alan Kennington)
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Subject: Re: Amiga vs ST - the debate continues
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Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 05:05:26 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  3 05:05:26 1986
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Reply-To: knnngt@ukma.UUCP (Alan Kennington)
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	On the subject of the relative secretiveness of the two machines,
one of the greatest pleasures of the ST is the lack of it, and one of the
most often heard complaints of Amiga owners is the excess of it. So you
have really picked the wrong aspect to grandstand on here.
	I may be wrong, but I have the distinct impression that the lack
of MMU gives the user access to the entire memory space. The space from
$0 to $7FFFF is readable and disassemblable and writeable by a BASIC
program in the ST. Also readable are the deadstart ROM chips at $FC0000
and, I think, $FA0000. I haven't got my developer's kit yet. After only
4 weeks over the Christmas period I am willing to forgive this.
	But if you want a copy of the development system (complete with
so much that I won't bore the good patient readers with the oft-repeated
list), just send $300 + $21(pack/hand/ship) to Atari Corporation,
1196 Borregas Avenue, Sunnyvale, California 94086 Atten. Richard Frick,
with your ST serial number (!). Oh, and by the way, you won't need
character references, and they won't check your criminal record (or will
they? They'd better not!).
	One final point: excessive quotation of recently posted items
is tedious, and so is biased "discussion". The best kind of discussion is
that which elicits NEW (!) FACTS(!!).  (end of speech.)  (ak).