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From: bakken@tahoma.ARPA (Dave Bakken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Amiga vs Atari ST
Message-ID: <159@tahoma.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 22-May-87 15:23:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 22 15:23:51 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 24-May-87 08:46:10 EDT
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Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Co., Seattle, WA
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Keywords: which is better
Summary: multitasking
Xref: mnetor comp.sys.amiga:5142 comp.sys.atari.st:3702

In article <943@cooper.UUCP>, g.greene@cooper.UUCP (Glenn Greene ) writes:
> IN GENERAL I WOULD LIKE THE PROS AND CONS OF BOTH MACHINES FROM AN
> EXPERIENCED USERS POINT OF VIEW CONCERNING GRAPHICS,SOFTWARE,
> ANIMATION ,BUSINESS APPLICATIONS,PROGRAMMING AND COMPUTER
> BASED MUSIC SYSTEMS.
>  

I bought my Amiga in December of '85, and I chose it over the Atari
because it was (and still is) the only PC to offer true multitasking.
I wasn't even too interested in the sound and graphics, but am glad
I got the Amiga on that count, too.  The user interface is great.
And, as a series of articles discussed a few months ago, the Amiga
is the best hacking machine out there today.  The programmer's
interface to graphics, devices, multitasking, etc. is at a very high level
and is (relatively) easy to use, freeing the programmer to do the
work he or she really wants to do.  To get a feel for the high level
you can program at, find the Byte article from about 6 months ago that
compared programming on the Amiga vs. the Mac.  I forget what the example
was but on the Mac you had to do a lot more work.

Also, the Commodore technical folks read the net and respond to questions
as often as possible. That is a big help, and I understand the Atari
folks are not accessible in that way.


Dave Bakken
Boeing Commercial Airplane Company
Flight Simulation Lab
uw-beaver!ssc-vax!shuksan!tahoma!bakken
(206) 237-5890

My views are my own, not my employer's.  Don't let them deter you from
buying the 747 you've been saving hard for.