On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 19:02 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 09:48 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > (I've been using Linux for about 12 years--switched from the > > > > Amiga, not Windows) > > > > > > I switched from the Atari ST to Linux 10 years ago, but I've got a > > > 80286 hardware emulator mounted inside my 520ST and 4 MB PC RAM > > > replaced the 512 KB, however, I also run DR DOS on that machine > > > and used a lot of 98SE and XP in my life. So I'm also not a native > > > Microsoft user, but I guess everybody of us had to use DOS or > > > Windows sometimes? At school, at work? > > > > The Atari ST. Remember that one. It was on my short list when I > > was looking for a personal computer to replace my fried Commodore > > 64. But I chose the Amiga instead. All my reading indicated it had > > more potential as a personal computer. Too bad Commodore never > > realized that, and drove it into the ground. > > I was a musician and audio and video engineer, so I started with the > C64 too and then needed to switch to the Atari ST. Atari continued > when Commodore already stopped. The TT and Falcon were much used, > especially the QL community used those computers with the emulator > distributed by Jochen Merz.
Once I went with the Amiga, I never much kept up with the Atari. Although I knew quite a few pro musicians, videographers and 3-D animators who preferred the Amiga over the Atari. Newtek's Lightwave, Video Toaster and Video Flyer certainly revolutionized the professional video market in a big way. No where else could the small independent video production company get set up for nonlinear editing for $4000 instead of the quarter of a million for a dedicated broadcast editing machine? B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130625110056.4fec0...@debian7.boseck208.net
