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In article <186@sbstaff2.UUCP> lean@sbstaff2.UUCP (Lean L. Loh) writes:
>  Hello hackers,
>		Having seen and played with both the Atari 1040ST and an
>IBM PC (AT), I wonder why there are still people buying (and using !!) the
>IBM PC AT. And the IBM PC (generic 8088)?  Ughhh.........
>		The Atari ST has an incredible monochrome monitor and an
>excellent color system. If any of you IBM fans out there haven't seen the
>ST and its capabilities, check it out. It's worth it.  

Recommending Atari ST to hackers? If an IBM user were to give up on his/her
IBM and decide to spend less bucks for a better machine, the Amiga is
the way to go. Especially now, with the Sidecar out... It provides full
IBM compatibility while preserving Amiga's multitasking environment. You can
even hook up IBM peripherals. You can run flight simulator. At least as fast
as the PC. You can also do fun things --- You can mess around with the 
colors and assign any subset of Amiga's 4096 colors to the 16 IBM colors.
And get a red sky with a purple landscape. And once you're airborne
and flying steady, you can resize the flight simulator window, push it to the
corner (where you can see a part of your instruments, just to make sure
nothing goes wrong...), and then open up your favorite text editor and
compiler for some serious programming... And when you are finally compiling,
you can plug in the Amiga flight simulator and start yet another flight, 
running concurrently with the IBM flight simulator. 

Atari ST??? Nahhh... The monochorome ST can't even run the flight simulator
written for the color ST! 


Ali Ozer, ali@navajo.stanford.edu

ps. (But I must admit Atari ST is some tough competition for the Commodore 64.)

also...
    But seriously folks, when I saw the Sidecar on the Amiga (especially after
    seeing the "Transformer," which ran about 20 IBM programs on the Amiga,  
    and that barely), I could not believe my eyes. That thing really 
    provides full IBM compatibility without losing any of Amiga's own
    neat features. I'm really impressed with it.