Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site panda.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!plw From: plw@panda.UUCP (Pete Williamson) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Amiga is really an Atari !! Message-ID: <709@panda.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 14:39:59 EDT Article-I.D.: panda.709 Posted: Thu Aug 8 14:39:59 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Aug-85 08:55:07 EDT Reply-To: plw@genrad.UUCP (Pete Williamson) Distribution: na Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 22 I was one of those Atari enthusiasts that bought the 800 when it cost a bundle. I have never regretted it since! It was a landmark machine in graphics (price/performance) and in operating system software. But as we all know, the designers of that system left Atari. Instead of a second generation of graphics architecture and obvious computer group upgrades in processing power, memory, and mass storage, Atari merely repackaged the same product a few times (many of them unsuccessful). They didn't even bother to increase players and missles and playfields. When Jack T. revived Atari, I once again hoped that new architectual advances might happen (special graphics processors, etc.) Although I presently own neither an ST or an Amiga, it sure looks to me, from the technical descriptions I have read, that the only thing "Atari" about the ST is its name. The Amiga, I believe, is the "Atari" that I'm looking for. If this is really the situation, I suspect that this newsgroup will change its name. Anybody agree/disagree ?? -- Pete Williamson "By hook or by crook, we will !!" ... #2