And still it was slower for almost everything, and had an OS befitting an 8-bit...
EDIT: Now lets get on USENET and start another Amiga vs Atari ST flamewar on comp.sys.aiga.advocacy.
A ZX Spectrum +3 was better that an Amiga and Atari ST in all universes.
xD
Don't forget the MIDI though.
Ah, good memories of flamewars in pre-Internet age. The Atari ST was a good piece of hardware, but the Amiga was superior in almost everything it did.
The Amiga was more powerful, thanks to its multiple chips offloading the CPU for many tasks, but the ST was a simpler, more elegant, design. In the end, the evolution of the ST family was easier, as the machine was less tied to NTSC timings and other design compromises that betrayed the gaming console origins of the Amiga. TOS/GEM was a very limited stack, but we shouldn't judge the hardware by its default software.
Thanks for bringing some memories back, I had a 520 ST after my Amstrad CPC664.
That sounds like me. After that, I went OS/2. These days I fear for any platform I choose.