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From: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: And the winner is...
Message-ID: <1412@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 18:23:19 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 19 18:23:19 1987
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Reply-To: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
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Summary: If you want 68020, there's no comparison
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In article <411@uop.UUCP> exodus@uop.UUCP (Freddy Kreuger) flames:
>Did you not take the time to read about the 68020 box for the STs?  Just
>plug it in and let it rip?  But then the Commodore 68020 can address more
>memory than the Atari 68020, right?  Commodore must have talked Motorola
>into making a Commodore version that is better and an Atari version that
>is not, right?  Use your head.  If both machines have easily added on/in 
>68020 boxes/cards, what is the difference except price?

The difference is this:  The Amiga's operating system and application
programs can run on a 68020, the Atari's CAN NOT.  You are talking about
hooking up a second computer to the side of your first one, talking to it
through your old keyboard/monitor, having it do all it's I/O through some
bizarre (probably non-DMA) interface to the original CPU, and saying you
have a 68020 in your machine.  Either that, or you will have to dump the
Atari OS and all the software for it; if so, what's the point of buying
the ST?

>                                                         As BYTE magazine
>has written, the Atari 1040ST (not to mention the new MEGAs) have the best
>price/performance ratio in the history of computing.

First of all, "Byte Magazine" doesn't write things, it publishes articles
written by individuals.  The statement you give above, even if it is a quote,
is a subjective statement and is the opinion of the person who wrote it, even
if that person is an editor of a very respectable magazine.

My primary use of all my computers is for software development and tele-
communications.  With my Amiga, I can download files, compile programs,
and edit source files, all at once.  Let's see, an Amiga 500 with 1Meg of
ram costs $860 at a local computer store, what does it cost for three Atari
ST's?

My point is that these questions are subjective.  I MIGHT even concede that
the average person who buys an Atari ST or Amiga 500 class of computer will
get a better bargain if they go with the ST.  But **I** have more fun and am
more productive with an Amiga.
-- 

Michael "Ford" Ditto				-=] Ford [=-
P.O. Box 1721					ford@crash.CTS.COM
Bonita, CA 92002				ford%oz@prep.mit.ai.edu