Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!think!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!crash!ford 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 Article-I.D.: crash.1412 Posted: Sun Jul 19 18:23:19 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Jul-87 03:38:58 EDT References: <17680@cca.CCA.COM> <979@eneevax.UUCP> <419@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> <411@uop.UUCP> Reply-To: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto) Distribution: na Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA Lines: 41 Summary: If you want 68020, there's no comparison Xref: mnetor comp.sys.amiga:6666 comp.sys.atari.st:4499 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