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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How to buy Amiga, and should I?
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Date: Sun, 15-Nov-87 13:51:17 EST
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>2) Is Amiga the best bet?  I've read articles here that imply
>   that I can get most any PC (e.g., IBM PC) and buy special
>   cards/software/color monitors that make them "as good."
>   Multitasking is less important to me than the speed, sound,
>   color graphics, and ability to work in assembler and C
>   (not to say I wouldn't take advantage of multitasking...).

	Well, considering which newsgroup you posted your message to I
think it's a safe bet that just about everybody here would say ... yes.
I have hacked on IBM-PC's also, and can say right off that the Amiga is 
three orders of magnitude better in respect to programming in both C and
Assembly. 

	And as far as multitasking goes, you're in for a surprise.  People
new to the Amiga (especially programmers) don't realize how much of boon
multitasking is until they start using the machine.  The cludges Apple has
added with their Multifinder, and all IBM-PC-compatible "multitasking"
software is NOT real multitasking.  Hell, I remember when I wrote a little
task switcher on my C64 so I could debug a game I was writing as I was 
playing it.  Bryce went a little further... he multitasked BASIC on his old
C64...  this is the relative level IBM and Apple are working at.

					-Matt