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From: cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac vs. Amiga
Message-ID: <11794@sun.uucp>
Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 14:23:49 EST
Article-I.D.: sun.11794
Posted: Wed Jan 21 14:23:49 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Jan-87 02:54:16 EST
References: <8515@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <8520@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Keywords: Mac, Amiga
Summary: Huh?

In article <8520@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>, brothers@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Laurence R. Brothers) writes:
> "Don't be silly!"
> 
> Get an Atari ST! Like 1/2 the price of the amiga and essentially the
> same features. OK, the amiga has a little better graphics, but then
> the ST has a better OS..... Also, you can get higher memory models
               ^^^^^^
> of the ST cheaper still (1040 K ST is < $1000, including monitor, disc
> drive) 

Great, and next your going to tell us it was all a big mistake and we
really should go back to MS-DOS 1.1 for the "best" OS. Seriously the
Atari OS was based on DRI's work toward an MS-DOS clone and it shows.
One of the nicer things about the Amiga was that it's OS is based on
TriPOS which at least was targeted for large systems and does not
have artificial limits built in (like 40 "folders" or 36 Meg of disk
space). It is also infinitely mor customizable than Atari's TOS.

And you can't buy a 2 meg ST or even an 8 meg ST today but you can buy
an Amiga with that much memory (and a 68881, and a 68020 if you want). 
-- 
--Chuck McManis
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