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From: speaker@gymble.UUCP (Speaker to Animals)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Amiga vs. ST
Message-ID: <257@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 23:38:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: gymble.257
Posted: Thu Aug 15 23:38:39 1985
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Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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In article <900001@ccvaxa> tucker@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
>
>     Its obvious that the hardware in the Amiga is far better than the
> Atari ST series (not the other way around).  Too bad it costs a hell of
> a lot more than the Atari will.  Since the machines are so similar, that
> will really hurt the Amiga.  Someone at Comm. better get their head out
> of the sand and look at whats going on if they expect them to sell.
> 
> Tim Tucker
> ..ucbvax!ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!tucker


Hey from what I've seen the Amiga has some pretty sophisticated shit in it.
Lots of specialized hardware and software to back it up too.  A lot really
for the $1300 base price.  Once the thing starts selling in quantity you'll
see the price come down too.

What bothers me is software.  I hope Commadore doesn't try to market this thing
as a toy game playing computer.  It really can be much more than that if they
try.  Can this thing ever be sold as a business machine?  A friend of mine
at TRW tells me that there are people over there actually looking at this thing
for use as a deliverable system.  And one of those people wants it for his own
home system... and HE'S a Macintosh fanatic!

Third-party vendors had better do better with Amiga than with Mac if it's
going to fly though.
-- 
seismo!gymble!speaker					- Speaker

"Earth is a great funhouse without the fun."
                -- Jeff Berner