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From: t68@nikhefh.hep.nl (Jos Vermaseren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Wait a Sec... (was Re: Atari fair at Duesseldorf (West Germany))
Message-ID: <539@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Date: 21 Sep 88 09:22:34 GMT
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Reply-To: t68@nikhefh.hep.nl (Jos Vermaseren)
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All this talk about a dying computer is clearly by people who are either
1:	unfamiliar with the European scene
2:	unfriendly to the ST (have an axe to grind).

In Europe the ST is selling very well. Maybe a part of the American
problem (if it exists) is that a much larger percentage of systems sold
in the US is a color system than in Europe. The color systems are not really
very suitable to work with (in the eyes of all the people that I know who
have an Atari). This leaves the color systems as either a special purpose
system, or a games machine. If the dying approach concerns those applications
I'll not say very much. The monochrome systems that I see in use every day
are very powerful mini computers. In the shops they sell very well.
Maybe the good software never made it to the US. A sign that indicates this
is that even turbo-c for the ST was developed in Germany, not by Borland-US.

This leaves the question: why is the American preference for color so much
greater than in Europe? I posed this question a long time ago, but nobody
could come up with an explanation. Anybody has one?

Jos Vermaseren