-=> 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   
   ........   
      
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