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From: freed@aum.UUCP (Erik Freed)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: ST enthusiasts
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Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 12:00:52 EST
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> Ok all you 520st enthusiasts, its time to stop dreaming.  The atari
> st is an incredible low end home computer.  But it is NOT an Amiga.
> Sure, with some very difficult assembly language code (counting cycles!
> egad!) - you can copy the bouncing ball, but if anyone seriously thinks 
> a ST can match up to the Amiga, they are crazy.  
> 
> I don't own either machine, and probably never will, however I have
> researched both.  Both have merits of their own, but they are two
> completely different machines.  The Amiga is a better computer, flat
> out, and it also costs twice as much.  Which is better for the money?
> I don't know, but I am tired of hearing atari salesmen, and atari
> owners, blabbing that the ST is "the same thing as an Amiga".  That
> quote came directly from an atari salesman.  
> 
> I am not about to list features, but if this letter makes you red, grab
> the specs for both machines and see for yourself.  No comparison.

I hate to think that it is really me that is involved in a ST vs Amiga war
but I have to take exception to this article. There are a lot of very cute
and superior things about the Amiga. There are also undeniably superior 
features that the ST can boast. I am incredulous that the Usenet has spawned 
so many articles devoid of any reasoning and filled with such misguided
emotion. If I can get a computer that has a 68000, 640 x 400 non-interlaced
graphics, and that runs code faster than than any other personal computer
(including the amiga -see the drystones) And I can get it for $600 
(yes it has been discounted that low) I feel that that is a far superior 
computer *FOR ME*. I however do not really need the color, sound capabilities, 
bus expansion, animation, and hope to use OS-9. The type of reasoning that is 
being displayed in some of these articles seems more appropriate while 
discussing football teams at one's favorite bar.
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                           Erik James Freed
			   Aurora Systems
			   San Francisco, CA
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