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From: ravi@mcnc.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Mac vs. Amiga
Message-ID: <1974@alvin.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 01:40:03 EST
Article-I.D.: alvin.1974
Posted: Thu Jan 22 01:40:03 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Jan-87 06:12:38 EST
References: <8520@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <1270@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Reply-To: ravi@alvin.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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Summary: Let's get our facts straight, shall we?
Xref: mnetor comp.sys.amiga:1595 comp.sys.mac:892 comp.sys.m68k:135 comp.sys.misc:234

In article <1270@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>> 
>> "Don't be silly!"
>
>"Don't be ignorant!"

	I won't argue the price/os issues, that's subjective and it's your 
money if you get suckered into a bad deal.. however, some of these
statements smack of ignorance on Dave's part (reminds me of the thing about
fellows in grass houses not storing thrones..)

>Like hard
>disks that get unbareably slow with partitions greater than 5 Megs,
>and go ape on you when you get something over 40 subdirectories on
>them.  
	Not true.  I have 10 & 16 Meg partitions on my 30 Meg disk, and
it books along quite well, thank you.  This is really a moot point,
however.  I put together a 30 Meg hard disk for my Atari for $600.
(You can buy a 20 Meg one for $650).  *All* my friends with Amiga's
are limping along with two floppies because they can't find real hard
disks for comparable (affordable?) prices (even something that plugs
into the printer port (for heavens sake!) is $850 or so around here)
I get to see them eyeing my drive every now and then, and after that I
don't even mind the 40 folder limit (for which Atari's worked out a
patch-fix, by the way).

>
>Of course, you can buy an Amiga and not need a "higher memory model".

	The original poster didn't know about boards that can be
bought for the ST that can be populated to go up to 4 Meg.


> ... Amiga's multitasking OS ... don't need desk accs ...

	Dave's one ironclad point.  The Amiga's multitasking *is*
great.  However, I look upon this as a difference in the machine's
characters, not an issue for mudslinging.  Does everyone want
multitasking?  I'm not sure.. (after all, it might slow my hard 
disk down :-)

	I imagine everyone is sick of this debate, so why doesn't
someone direct followups to the place it all started (now that I've
got my two bits in)?

							-ravi