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From: rcte2p@menudo.uh.edu (Paul Stephen Sears)
Subject: Re: Atari-To-Amiga Convert Info Source!
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.225219.18618@menudo.uh.edu>
Reply-To: rcte2p@menudo.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Organization: University of Houston, College of Technology
References: <9106231954.AA23332@cwns2.INS.CWRU.Edu> <SCOTT.91Jun23172143@breeze.cs.odu.edu> <1991Jun24.110408.29984@Sugar.NeoSoft.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 22:52:19 GMT

peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) presents in article <1991Jun24.110408.29984@Sugar.NeoSoft.com>
>In article <SCOTT.91Jun23172143@breeze.cs.odu.edu> scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott D. Yelich) writes:
[misc stuff deleted]
>
>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.

Isn't that great?  A unix box that costs less that an Amiga 3000 and it
even has ethernet built in.... Maybe you should have waited longer than
6 years to make your decision...

>
>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?

Yep... Every day...  I use computers that have more raw processing power
than 100 Amigas running in parallel processing...

>
>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.

Sounds like you didn't look around too much.  You can get a used Sun 3
with 4 Meg ram for under $1000...

>
>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.

Of course there is.  Buy a NeXT.  I can get a NeXT with a 100M HD, 2.88M
floopy, a MUCH better user interface, built in sound digitizer, *nix OS (MACH)
plus many other ammenities for less than a Amiga 3000....  So
please, don't cop the attitude that Amiga is the best buy for the money.
Wake up...  Steve Jobbs strikes again...  (and I could add 32bit color
for $1500 more) And, the NeXT has a 68040, display postscipt and a
400dpi laser printer... (I have an Atari 520 and I would still buy one
today... of course, I would get my NeXT too...)

>
>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?"

P.S: Here at UH, the monochrome NeXT is $3K with student discount...


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