Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!unido!sns!space From: space@sns.UUCP (Lars Soltau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga/Atari St sales figure (really a counter-flame) Summary: Tell me, why do I bother? Message-ID: <174@sns.UUCP> Date: 6 Dec 88 18:17:44 GMT References: <8812021519.AA24321@decwrl.dec.com> <2261@bucsb.UUCP> Reply-To: space@sns.UUCP (Lars Soltau) Organization: Stuttgart Net System, FRG Lines: 21 In article <2261@bucsb.UUCP> crewman@bucsb.bu.edu (Jerry Shekhel) writes: >On a REALLY >PURE technological level, the Amiga and the ST are the same computer. I hope for you that you don't mean that. The ST is a 68000 with just the necessary items around it to make up a full computer. No originality. The effect is that the CPU even has to twiddle the screen bits one by one. I will not even mention sound here, because the ST has nothing in this area worth mentioning. (The only thing its sound processor is good for is that key click which is necessary because you never know if that rubber keyboard has accepted your key stroke or not.) BTW, I've first owned an ST and about half a year ago I finally upgraded to an Amiga. A few weeks ago I finally managed to sell my ST. I wasn't able to work on it for more than 5 minutes any more without trying to click something back and start something else and ... So I really DO know what I'm talking about. -- Lars Soltau UUCP: ...uunet!unido!sns!space BIX: -- no bucks -- Here's looking at you, kid! -- the Medusa