Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!grebyn!ckp
From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A4000,Lotus,Microsoft,UNIX...
Message-ID: <22345@grebyn.com>
Date: 2 Oct 90 17:06:48 GMT
References: <32040@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Reply-To: ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies)
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA, USA
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In article <32040@nigel.ee.udel.edu> WHE46@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>   I wish that all Amiga users (especially those in the US) would forget
>that Atari even exists, and start concentrating on Apple.

We in the USA *have* forgotten about - uh, um - oh, yes, Atari.  The
interview you're quoting was done in Europe, and over there Atari is
much more successful than in the USA, and is still considered a
competitor.  Atari has begun delivering their TT in Germany (I've
heard); superficialy it resembles the A3000 and in fact beats it "by
the numbers": 32MHz 68030, 4 Meg RAM, 1 "industry standard" VMEbus
slot, and some new high-res graphics modes like 1280 X 960
non-interlaced monochrome, 640 X 480 X 16 color non-interlaced, and
320 X 200 X 256 color.  It's still TOS however, and it doesn't have
the expandability that A3000 does (despite the VMEbus, which is
limited to 16 bits vs. the new Zorro III spec), it doesn't have an
upgradeable CPU, it doesn't run Unix, it doesn't have the video
capabilities, etc.
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