Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gymble.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!speaker From: speaker@gymble.UUCP (Speaker to Animals) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Amiga vs. ST Message-ID: <257@gymble.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 23:38:39 EDT Article-I.D.: gymble.257 Posted: Thu Aug 15 23:38:39 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 20:32:08 EDT References: <268@ihnet.UUCP> <900001@ccvaxa> Reply-To: speaker@gymble.UUCP (Speaker to Animals) Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 31 In article <900001@ccvaxa> tucker@ccvaxa.UUCP writes: > > Its obvious that the hardware in the Amiga is far better than the > Atari ST series (not the other way around). Too bad it costs a hell of > a lot more than the Atari will. Since the machines are so similar, that > will really hurt the Amiga. Someone at Comm. better get their head out > of the sand and look at whats going on if they expect them to sell. > > Tim Tucker > ..ucbvax!ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!tucker Hey from what I've seen the Amiga has some pretty sophisticated shit in it. Lots of specialized hardware and software to back it up too. A lot really for the $1300 base price. Once the thing starts selling in quantity you'll see the price come down too. What bothers me is software. I hope Commadore doesn't try to market this thing as a toy game playing computer. It really can be much more than that if they try. Can this thing ever be sold as a business machine? A friend of mine at TRW tells me that there are people over there actually looking at this thing for use as a deliverable system. And one of those people wants it for his own home system... and HE'S a Macintosh fanatic! Third-party vendors had better do better with Amiga than with Mac if it's going to fly though. -- seismo!gymble!speaker - Speaker "Earth is a great funhouse without the fun." -- Jeff Berner