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> I just read the article in the August 1985 issue of Personal Computing on 
> the Commodore Amiga.  There is little detail about the guts of the machine
> and the hardware. 
> 
> All I've seen about the Atari 520ST has been in the net.micro.atari
> newsgroup.  A little bit more about the hardware and the guts, but not
> much.
> 
> As you might expect, I'm in the market for one of these two machines, but
> have very little to go on.  I know that I don't really want a Mac, both
> because of the price and the closed architecture.  (I don't want to start
> any Mac vs. anything else flames, please!).  The article on the Amiga
> says that it has "true multitasking", what ever that is.
> 
> Has anyone on the net made any point by point comparisons of these two
> machines?  Apparently the 520ST isn't vaporware anymore, and hopefully
> the Amiga will begin to appear on dealer's shelves soon.  I'm interested
> in what the nuts and bolts of the hardware are, and what the provided
> software and operating system do for/to you.
> -- 
> Louis A. Mamakos WA3YMH   University of Maryland, Computer Science Center
>  Internet: louie@umd5.arpa
>  UUCP: {seismo!umcp-cs, ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!louie

The latest issue of Byte does a very good job of describing the Commodore
Amiga in detail.  Has anything similar been done on the Atari 520 ST?  If
so will someone let me know.

Steve Tenbrink
sct@lanl.arpa