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From: jdg@elmgate.UUCP (Jeff Gortatowsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: owning an Amiga and an ST (really what A real PC is to me)
Message-ID: <734@elmgate.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 15:53:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: elmgate.734
Posted: Sun Sep 13 15:53:55 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Sep-87 02:11:24 EDT
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Reply-To: jdg@aurora.UUCP (Jeff Gortatowsky)
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY
Lines: 78
Keywords: it's possible, you know.  preemptive censorship.

I too own both machines.  I could not make up my mind which I wanted.
I had the money (plastic), so I went for the gusto.  Anything *HAD*
to be better than the IBM-PC clone with MSDOS.  Little did I know
at the time that GEMDOS was worse.  Then AmigaDOS turned out to be a
dud. Sigh.......

I took confort in the fact that the Amiga's Native Executive/Graphics
software seemed well done but then......... Yup, all hell broke loose
at work.  Someone plopped me in front of a Sun 2/120 (2 years ago).
"So this is how a real personal computer works", I said to myself.
Of course the price was anything but personal.  Still, I hadn't
had that much *FUN* with a computer since my father bought a 16k
TRS-80 Level 1 machine in 1978!

Now many of you recognize all the symptoms of UNIX-itis, RAM-a-toasus,
virtual brain damage, and MMU-cancer.   I've got 'em all.  No doctor
was available to save me from the "Dark side of the PC".  The
evil empire put a Sun 3/160m in front of me and I was finished. Doomed.

My ST?  Sits by itself on it's table waiting for the Boston Computer
Society to call for a donation to it's archives...

My Amiga?  Patiently awaits the ASDG gods to deliver an A-2000 expansion
chassis to stuff an 80meg Hard drive, 68020/68881 + {insert MMU here},
plus {insert a UNIX name here}, into.
Then again with the price of the Sun 3/50 at ~$5k.... maybe in a few
years.......

ST vs. Amiga?  Bull pucky!  I learned a hard (and expensive) lesson
in the difference between 'consumer electronics' vs. 'personal computers 
(workstations?)'.

Commodore and/or Atari, if your out there..
	if ((cpu == 68020 || (cpu == 68010 && clock >= 10)
		&& mmu == TRUE  &&
		(displayX >= 764 && displayY >= 512) &&
		(color == TRUE || color == FALSE) &&
		(strcmp (os,"UNIX") == 0 || strcmp (os,"OS-68k") == 0) &&
		price <= 3000)
	{
			sales += 1;
	
			profits += PROFIT_PER_COMPUTER;

			user_id[sales] = register_new_user ("J.","Gortatowsky");
	}

	else
	{
		exit (ENOREALCOMPUTER);
	}

Umm ...... 8^) :^)


UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T.
Atari is registered trademark of Atari Corporation.
Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore Business Machines.
TRS-80 may be registered trademark of Tandy Corporation.
ASDG may be a registered trademark of ASDG Inc.
IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines, Inc.
GEMDOS may be registered trademark of Atari Corporation or Digital
		Research Inc.
Sun 2/120 or Sun 3/160 may be a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems
		Inc.

(One can't be too careful these days).

J.Gortatowsky is an unregistered trademark of a 28 year old male living
in Rochester New York, and therefore has no legal restrictions on it's
use.

Harriet... If your out there Ken and I say hello!
-- 
Jeff Gortatowsky       {seismo,allegra}!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jdg
Eastman Kodak Company  
These comments are mine alone and not Eastman Kodak's. How's that for a
simple and complete disclaimer?