Ataris

From: Dellett, Anthony <Anthony.Dellett_at_Staples.com>
Date: Tue Aug 25 09:07:55 1998

> On 24 Aug 98 at 21:02, Uncle Roger wrote:
>
> > At 11:45 AM 8/24/98 PDT, you wrote:
> > >Today I saw an Atari 5?0ST and an 800XL. As I understand,
> the ST ran
> > >GEM. Is this an interesting computer at all? What about the XL? Was
> > >this one of the BASIC computers?
> >
> > 520ST does indeed run GEM; it's about equivalent to a Mac
> Plus or so.
>
> Not to start a flame-war or anything but I have a 4 meg Mac+
> and there's no
> way it is the equivalent of an ST. The only thing they had in
> common was the
> 68000 processor. In productivity applications, games, music
> programs, graphics,
> and ease of use it is vastly superior. The proper comparison
> would be the
> Amiga, which excelled in graphics versus the ST which
> excelled in music. Their
> capabilities IMHO exceeded the later 386 and with the various
> add-ons is
> still my machine of choice when not on the net. It's just a
> pleasure to use.

I'd like to chime in here. The Amiga was a great machine for Graphics,
Video, AND music during it's time (which is still ongoing). It was very
easy to attach a midi interface and there were alot of really killer
sequencers available. Plus, the Amiga bore the MOD music file format!
Received on Tue Aug 25 1998 - 09:07:55 BST