Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!gatech!mcnc!uvaarpa!hudson!bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU!gl8f From: gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: 1 million... Message-ID: <843@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 4 Dec 88 21:16:57 GMT References: <11767@cup.portal.com> <5376@cbmvax.UUCP> <3fff1a00.14e07@gtephx.UUCP> <3057@sugar.uu.net> Sender: news@hudson.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Organization: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Virginia Lines: 27 In article <3057@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <3fff1a00.14e07@gtephx.UUCP>, covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes: >> Commodore has done >> a GREAT job ADVERTISING (Atari doesn't advertise!!) the machines. > >Tell them that on comp.sys.amiga. We are uniformly disgusted by the Commodore >advertising, and wish they did as good a job as Atari. Atari has some effective >advertisements comparing the hardware with the PC and the Apple IIGS, where it >shines (as does the Amiga, but Commodore doesn't see fit to tell anyone). That's odd; the opinion here seems to be that comparing hardware isn't nearly as good as comparing applications: users don't understand the diferences between buswidths, microprocessors, and clock speeds. On the other hand, it's probably tough to convince the consumer that "You can get a spreadsheet for the {Atari ST,Amiga} that is just as good as any for the {Mac/IIgs/PC}". Probably the best advertising dollars spent are those on vertical markets. But we all dream of seeing Commodore and Atari prevent PC klones and over-priced Macs from owning the personal computer market. -- greg ---------- Greg Lindahl internet: gl8f@virginia.edu University of Virginia Department of Astronomy bitnet: gl8f@virginia.bitnet "When a 300' dish falls in the woods, and nobody hears, does it make a sound?"