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From: peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Atari-To-Amiga Convert Info Source!
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.110408.29984@Sugar.NeoSoft.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <9106231954.AA23332@cwns2.INS.CWRU.Edu> <SCOTT.91Jun23172143@breeze.cs.odu.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 11:04:08 GMT

In article <SCOTT.91Jun23172143@breeze.cs.odu.edu> scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott D. Yelich) writes:
> Anyway, my ST does what I need a computer to do.  Most people don't
> have the money nor the need to get a super home computer.

Well then, it's good that the Amiga 500 costs $500.

> For years now I have had people ask me about which personal computer to
> purchase.

Amiga. I pushed the machine before I ever got one. I put off buying a
personal computer for 6 years waiting for something like the Amiga to
come out. There is still, 6 years later, *NO* other personal computer
with an operating system that satisfies my *minimum* functionality
requirements, unless you go out and buy a UNIX box.

And at that it's one of the cheapest machines out there.

> MY atari does what I need it to do.

You're satisfied, but have you used a real computer?

I've been there. I borrowed an IBM clone for a while, then an Atari ST. It's
called shopping around. The productivity improvement from reliable, efficient,
and responsive multitasking is amazing.

There really is a basic, fundamental difference between the Amiga and the rest.
Your arguments make good sense when comparing Ataris and Mac and IBMs, but
there *is* something better.

And *you* don't have to wait 6 years to find it, like I did.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'   <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
                   'U`    "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
