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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
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Reply-To: space@sns.UUCP (Lars Soltau)
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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