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Re: so who really won, amiga or atari?
« on: November 14, 2003, 01:38:25 AM »
As a platform, neither have died as each has its dedicated fan base.

Other than clone 680x0 based machines produced in reasonably small numbers where is the atari going?

Therefore, I would say that as a platform amiga is healthier. We have not one, but two hardware successors, each using more recent technologies and off the shelf components. I dont see any son-of-atari Peg/A1 style systems. We had PPC cards that reached the production stage (IIRC there were atari PPC cards that never got beyond the prototype stage).

Even as a 680x0 only machine we have better emulations with systems like WinUAE and Amithlon that surpass any atari emulation I have seen. I wouldn't be surprised if we had a higher proportion of 040/060 users in our userbase too, but that is pure conjecture on my part.

Then there is AROS, attempting to run everywhere...

As a company, possibly atari is in better shape than amiga inc, but it is definately a mere shadow of its former self.
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Re: so who really won, amiga or atari?
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2003, 03:36:41 AM »
Could be what Downix meant. Some of those atari clones had decent hardware (PCI/060/SDRAM) but TOS is just dreadful ;-)
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Re: so who really won, amiga or atari?
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2003, 03:48:42 AM »
So marginally less crap then :lol:

Only kidding. MultiTOS was a much bigger step in the right direction, but to be fair, amigaos kicks its ass :-)
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Re: so who really won, amiga or atari?
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2003, 11:44:55 PM »
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