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Subject: Re: Amiga3000 or Atari ??
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Date: 23 Sep 90 23:21:30 GMT
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In article <1990Sep21.232318.24012@agate.berkeley.edu> vincelee@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Vincent H. Lee) writes:
>
>You can go out today and buy an Amiga 3000.
>
Apparently, the TT is available in Europe to the average consumer and
will be introduced in the States during Fall Comdex.

>I can't really review vaporware, except to speculate that almost ALL
>ST software will break on the TT, since 020 and 030 ST's have been almost
>nonexistent in the ST's 5-year life.
>
The official quote (from Sam Tramiel VP at Atari) made during the
Glendale Atari faire is that the TT will run between 85% and 90%
of all existing ST software and apparently they upped the 68030 to
32 mhz.  The type of software that usually breaks is games, not
surprisingly.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Amiga discussions.
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