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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: advice please - Atari-ST or Amiga
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Date: 6 Feb 91 23:37:54 GMT
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In article <1991Feb6.205829.2142@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> carter@cat27.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) writes:
>
>As for sales, thats funny, a German friend on my floor says thats all there
>are in Germany is Atari's with a few Amiga's sprinkled here and there???

	Well, your friend has an unusual floor. Commodore sells
more personal computers in Europe than any other company except
IBM, they have over 10% of the market. Commodore's sales are also
over twice that of Atari's, in dollars. Your friend is simply
incorrect. Atari is going downhill if you look at their
statements.
>
>Atari has very healthy markets abroad and just like commodore, Atari has
>yet to take advantage of the USA market.
>
	Atari, IN EUROPE ONLY, has decent markets which are
shrinking.

>Really, multitasking is WAY overplayed by AMIGA people.  They are not
>the only people who have multi tasking machines, its just that workbench
>supports this option automatically.  While on the ST its an add on.
>
	Multitasking is only REALLY useful with a powerful
computer. On a standard Amiga, you can format on one disk drive
and compress on another while word processing. But on a
higher-end Amiga with hard-drive (the most important add-on) as
well as 1MB-2MB of memory, you can run many programs
simultaneously. Interprocess Communications is a very powerful
feature that is underused.
	To say multitasking is WAY overplayed is to have never
used it to its fullest. Most people don't. And multitasking is an
add-on to MS-DOS if you count their TSRs.

>---Gregory


	-- Ethan


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