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From: ytsuji@wucc.waseda.ac.jp (Y.Tsuji Y.Tsuji shagaku)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 2.5 million ST's sold worldwide!
Summary: m68k in Japan has been a failure.
Keywords: Atari Asia
Message-ID: <5330@wucc.waseda.ac.jp>
Date: 25 Mar 91 15:02:24 GMT
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Organization: The Centre for Informatics, WASEDA Univ.
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The only m68k machines ever sold in Japan are cpm68k boards to MSDOS machines
or X68000 (SHARP's hobby machine). CPM68K has been expensive because they are
for developers but SHARP's machines have been a great failure: people do not
buy machines people do not know. As to ATARI, they are the things one usually
finds in a music shop under dust. ATARI ST is very much like IBM PC here: the
owners used them before coming to Japan: no reason why they can be sold here.
Things are very different on 68020 or higher front (Sony's NEWS or SUN's of
various names). But that is not a comfort for us.