Atari/Commodore hybrid, was Re: General religious wars (was Re: Editor religious wars)

[Geoff Oltmans]

I think one thing in particular that the Atari ST had an advantage with was the addition of the hard disk/dma port. It made adding a hard disk a lot cheaper. Hard disk controllers on the Amiga were astronomical.


On Jan 29, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

>> It was Shiraz's design, and it was following the same "power without
>> the price" methodology they did back at Commodore with the vic20 and
>> C64.  At least according to them.  Although the ST's main competitor
>> wound up being the Amiga, it was actually promoted as a cheaper full
>> color Macintosh (hence the Jackintosh).
> 
> The Atari ST is no match for the Amiga, but the ST is still a very nice
> system. I'm rather fond of them myself.
> 
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