Not really: "In the late 80s I bought an Atari computer. Half a megabyte of memory, and an Akai sampler with a half-megabyte drive. I did the Heresy album, which is one of my more popular albums with that setup, all 8-bit." [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-WD5gPvUyQ[/youtube]
Atari ST was state of the art back then. It ran the predecessor of what is now known as cubase. It was used for midi editing. Think ministry and other industrial acts used it too.