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From: ross@ulowell.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Mac vs. Amiga
Message-ID: <969@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 15:10:18 EST
Article-I.D.: ulowell.969
Posted: Fri Jan 23 15:10:18 1987
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References: <8515@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <8520@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: ross@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Ross Miller)
Organization: University of Lowell
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Keywords: Mac, Amiga
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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
*flame on*
sigh, here we go again.  
Ok, so you say the Atari has a better OS.  Case
in point.  I'm kermiting down a whole directory of public domain stuff
from a BSD system.  When, I suddently realize, oh crud, not only am
I going to run out of RAM, I am using the dynamic RAM drive, but I
don't have enough space on the floppy when I take the files out of ram
and move them to the floppy.  Solution, bring up another couple of
MULTIPROCESSING windows.  One runs compress on each file on the RAM
disk as it comes in, and another copies it out to disk and deletes it,
after it has been compressed, hopefully :-).  It worked, I got 1.5M
of compressed stuff out onto that disk, and then took it home to deal
with it.  The point of this is, that a statement that multiprocessing
is what makes the Amiga.  The statment that the ST has a better OS
is a sign of true ignorance.  Take a course in OS's before you speak,
and you are guilty of misinformation.  Personally I dislike Micro's
in general, but the Amiga and its OS are the first of more to come
that are usable.  (Micros I mean, no no not a rumor)  I just can 
stand doing one thing at a time slowly.  All right, this is the first
time I gave into tempation and replied to one of these, but I can't
stand ignorance.
*flame off*
>of the ST cheaper still (1040 K ST is < $1000, including monitor, disc
>drive) 
You get what you pay for, generally.
>
>Also, if you like Mac software, you can get a cartridge relatively
>cheaply that plugs into the st case and presto -- color Mac.
>Apparently, the ST actually runs many Mac program faster than the
>Mac...
Yea, and the amiga can be turned into an IBM.  I have seen an ST emulator
on the Amiga also, but never say it work.  A c64 emulator also exists,
and there are constant rumors of a Mac emulator.  But, notice that no
one is emulating the Amiga.  Two possibilities:     
1.)  The Amiga is failing, naw, to much loyalty, and commodore stock
	continues to rise.
2.)  The Amiga is truly a cut above, or state of the art, and can't be
	emulated by the more primitive hardware and OSes.

						Ross Miller
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disclaimer:  These are not the opinions of my employers.  They don't
	care.  This was written by the same monkeys who came up
	with shakespere. (sp?) :-)