Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better Message-ID: <1991Apr4.040656.18810@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University References: <1991Apr4.021357.4013@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <2045@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil> Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1991 04:06:56 GMT In article <2045@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil> schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger) writes: >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. > I believe the number over the time from July 1, 1989 through June 30, 1990 was about 550,000 machines, and Commodore has reported that since then sales are up over 20%. As well, the Christmas quarter showed the third largest sales of any CBM quarter ever. >Jeff Schweiger >-- >******************************************************************************* >Jeff Schweiger Standard Disclaimer CompuServe: 74236,1645 >Internet (Milnet): schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil >******************************************************************************* -- Ethan Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb A: None. It's a hardware problem.