Hi,
I am an Amigan and never owned an Atari in my life (okay, my father did, but it was 8bit - before Amiga came to be). But lately I've been eyeing the Falcon and will probably buy one in the near future (if I can get by with just one kidney...). By all accounts it must have been quite an interesting machine.
Anyway, in the last few days I have visited a few Atari forums in an attempt to become more familiar with different 3rd party HW expansions that exist for the Falcon (would you believe they don't have a centralized HW information storage like a BBOAH or amiga.resource.cx
). Of course, in the end I ended up reading those various Amiga vs Atari, 'what was the biggest flaw in ST design' etc threads.
One thing I noticed is that quite often when talking about Amiga, Atarians (is that a word?) complain about its lack of stability. Now that I think about it it's not the first time I heard someone outside the Amiga community complaining about 'too many guru meditations'.
Now I'm wondering - compared to modern machines and OSs (realistically, even Windows...) classic Amigas are not that stable. The thing is I always thought it normal for a platform basically designed in the 80s to behave like that, not have memory protection etc. Based on what I read lately it seems like Amiga wasn't that stable even compared to its contemporaries.
I wasn't there in the late 80s/early 90s so I don't really know what to think about this. What is your opinion?
Also do you think that the quirkiness of the funny guru meditation messages may have contributed to the fact that Amiga system errors stuck more in people's memory?
