Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!taurus!aldebaran!schweige From: schweige@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better Message-ID: <2045@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil> Date: 4 Apr 91 03:24:38 GMT References: <1991Apr3.190802.11055@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Apr4.021357.4013@en.ecn.purdue.edu> Reply-To: schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger) Distribution: usa Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA Lines: 24 In article <1991Apr4.021357.4013@en.ecn.purdue.edu> stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton) writes: >In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >> >>The NeXT is selling well. They are in the $5000 market. You just >>don't sell as many machines there. Commodore has sold more machines >>than Sun too, but most people would buy stock in Sun. > >Really? Sun is supposed to be selling more than 250,000 boxes this year >(EE Times, April 1, 1991). How many boxes will Commodore ship? Considering that in the less than six years since the Amiga was first introduced, Commodore has sold over 2 million of them, that works out to an average of over 330,000 Amigas per year (and probably more, but I don't know when in 1985 the Amiga first started shipping, and I don't know how many Amiga's over the 2 million mark have been sold). I've seen nothing to indicate that Commodore will be shipping Amigas at any slower rate in the near future, either. Jeff Schweiger -- ******************************************************************************* Jeff Schweiger Standard Disclaimer CompuServe: 74236,1645 Internet (Milnet): schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil *******************************************************************************