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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga coverage in Byte
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Date: 1 Mar 91 03:19:07 GMT
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From article <1991Mar1.024207.29305@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, by stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton):
> Let's take this from the top.  There are some 75 million DOS boxes out
> there.  There are 4.5 million macintoshes.  Lord knows how many unix
> systems are currently running.  How many Amigas have been sold?
> 
> Compare the percentage sold to the amount of editorial space each machine
> gets.  Think of economics.  Think of trying to sell magazines to the widest
> possible audience.

Okay.  We have over 2 million.  Doesn't that mean we should get at LEAST half
the coverage that the Macintosh does???  God knows we're better... :)

> 
> - System requirements
>     Amiga 2000 or 2500 with 7 MB of memory, an Amiga 1080-series or
>     compatible monitor, and an empty video slot
> 
Does it really require 7 meg of memory?  That's something I didn't know.  I
mean, I knew it took a lot of memory, but I didn't know it took THAT much.
Is that BEFORE modules (tracing, painting) are loaded, or is that DVI with
both loaded???
							Greg

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