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From: colas@lemur.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo)
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Subject: Re: advice please - Atari-ST or Amiga
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Date: 11 Feb 91 10:48:15 GMT
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Facts About European sales figures:
For France, where I live, ST sold better than Amigas till the end of 89, and now
the figures have been reversed (amiga sold better than STs). Since mid-90,
the amiga sales have raised tremendoulsy since the amiga 500 price went down to
exactly the price of an ST. Prices of add-ons (memory, drives, etc..) were
ridiculously high for the ami till last year when they drop to ST level, and
even lower now.

I have read too that now in the UK that the amiga is the most installed (and the
most sold I think) of ALL micros (including C64, etc...).

As for flame wars, I owned an ST and an amiga, and I would advise people to 
determine themselves by the software they want to run. The only "business"
application I use is a videotex emulator, and no good ones exist on the ami, but
very nice ones (ZZ-COMM) exist on the ST, I am planning to buy a ST-emulator on
my ami to run it. 
There are also very nice unix terminal emulators (term83) unavailable on the
amiga, due to the nice mono screen of the ST.

But since now I mostly play games, the amiga is way ahead in this aera... so it
all boils down to what you want to do with your computer.

--
Colas Nahaboo, colas@sa.inria.fr, Bull Research, Koala Project, GWM X11 WM
Phone:(33) 93.65.77.70(.66 Fax), INRIA, B.P.109 - 06561 Valbonne Cedex, FRANCE.