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From: exodus@uop.UUCP (Freddy Kreuger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: And the winner is...
Message-ID: <411@uop.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 01:26:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: uop.411
Posted: Thu Jul 16 01:26:51 1987
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Summary: 68020 remarks?  Use your head
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In article <419@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>, ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) writes:
> instance I just read in Amazing Computing that the CSA Turbo Amiga can 
> accept upto 12 Megs of 32-bit memory internally alone. And this memory goes
> above 68000's maximum address of 00ffffff. So if you're concern is Mega ST's
> reported 16 Megs vs Amiga 2000's 9.5, then you should realize that the 68020
> opens up a lot more possibilities. Of course the CSA Turbo Amiga
> (and the various memory boards for it) are currently costly, but other
> 68020/68881 boards will drive prices down, way down, I'm sure. 
> 
> Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu

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?  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.  The Amiga is as
powerful and as pricey as the Mac, and no one in either the ST group or
the Amiga group wants a MAC, right?  So let's just settle on improving
technology and helping each other.  Write software on one machine then
let somone with the other machine port it and everybody has equally
powerful technology and software in their hands.  I'm sure we're all happy
that we don't have 8-bits anymore !!

Greg Onufer