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From: john1233@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Thomas M Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Looking into amiga
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 13:16:58 EST
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Well, I am looking into an Amiga (I'm an old Atari 800 user)
and I have several questions.
I'm sure these have been asked before so all the frequent readers of this
newsgroup are sick of them but I'll ask anyway.

First, about the Amiga 2000's IBM compatiblility. What expansion are cards
are you able to use? Multifunction cards, modems, etc?
How software compatible is the bridgeboard to IBM software and how
fast does it emulate?

Next, and I guess the most asked question, about the multitasking.
How much does it slow the machine down? 
Is this possible....
     Having a BBS program running while doing other things like writing
     a C program?

Is the desktop is ROM or do you have to load it from disk (yech!)

Now onto the Amiga 500......
I've heard it is software compatible but not hardware compatible.
What can't you use with the A500? How well does the multitasking
operate on the 500?

				    Thanks is advance for any replys,
					      Tom Johnson
                                      john1233@csd4.milw.wisc.edu