-=> Andy Ball wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 AB>    DD> So you now have a 1040 - right?

 AB> Essentially it became a 1040 STFM, yes.

 AB>    DD> ...the Amiga (a *much* better computer IMO)...

 AB>     They were different machines and I liked them both in
 AB> different ways. The Amiga's custom chipset, bus architecture and
 AB> multitasking operating system were impressive but that also made it
 AB> more complicated and more expensive.  I really liked the
 AB> simplicity of the ST and I liked that the operating system
 AB> was in ROM and I was comfortable with GEM because I'd used
 AB> it on a couple of other computers.

One of the main things I liked about the Amiga was that if a software developer
stuck to the "rules" in the ROM Kernel Manual and didn't go banging the
hardware his software would work on *any* Amiga. Almost all of the programs I
bought for my Amiga 1000 (the first version of the Amiga) still work on the
3000T and worked on my now dead A-4000. But, that's productivity stuff. Games
developers seemed *always* to bang the hardware for SFX - and their games would
break between different generations of machines.  Bv(=

And, unlike Micro$not - the AmigaOS didn't require a huge suite of "legacy"
drivers, etc.

I never owned, nor mucked about with any Atari beyond a 2600 game console
........

... PC: Suit & Tie | Mac: Cool Shades | AMIGA: Pagan Sex Magick/Leather
& Lace
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