Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bpa!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: 1 million... Message-ID: <5376@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 17:44:58 GMT References: <11767@cup.portal.com> Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 31 in article <11767@cup.portal.com>, Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) says: > Also, I'm sure that a good chunk of those Amiga sales were the 500 which > was probably bought primarily as a game machine while the majority of STs > out there are 1040's which have much greater utility. Huh? While it's almost certainly true that a good portion (more than 50%) of the Amigas being sold today are A500s, what could possibly make you think than a 1040 ST has "much greater utility" than an A500? If you ignore for a moment the issues of operating system and the other things that cause flame wars, the A500 and the 1040 ST look awfully similar: - 1 meg of internal memory (The A500 comes with 512K but accepts an little 512K add-on card that brings it up to 1 meg. Nearly every A500 is sold with this card). - Internal double sided floppy disk drive - 68000 CPU - Etc and so forth. There are certainly differences, though most of those differences are the general differences you find between Ataris and Amigas, not specific to these models. > Peter Szymonik -- Dave Haynie "The 32 Bit Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy Amiga -- It's not just a job, it's an obsession