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From: KAHNP@SKIDMORE.BITNET (I Agitate Communists)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: About Atari's, Mac's, and IBM's
Message-ID: <8804071811.AA05419@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 7 Apr 88 05:34:00 GMT
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I am thinking of upgrading from my evil 6502 based machine (Apple //e).
I heard about the IBMs and programmed on them and I saw somethings I liked.
I told a friend about buying one and he said that I should buy an Atari
because they can emulate IBMs..perfectly.  I had only heard bad stories
about atari's and didn't listen to him.  Later I used macs alot and
thought about purchasing one of them.  The same freind muttered atari
again, and again I scoffed.  Then another friend's mother bought an
atari after checking them out in Consumer Reports annaul guide to
computers.
  Now I am finally looking at Ataris, but I have some questions
that I hope you can answer:
what is the processor?
What is in the attachment that makes it a mac?
How well does it emulate IBMs?
Does it communicate through the SCSI interface oof the mac?
How upgradable is it?
What is the maximum memory capacity?
Can it use a Paged Memory Managment Unit?

If any of you could answer any of these questions I would be
greatly appreciative.

                                        Peter Kahn
                                      KAHNP@SKIDMORE
thank you very much.