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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Sales Vs Amiga?
Message-ID: <1991Jun01.041824.18372@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 91 04:18:24 GMT
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Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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In article <1991Jun1.022249.22182@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>
>   There is currently an installed base of roughly 5 million MACs and 
>2 million Amigas world-wide.  However, these figures are very misleading
>because most of the Amigas are in Europe and most of the MACs are in
>the U.S.


There are three million Amigas world wide and it took less time than the
Macs.


>   I've been wanting to answer this one for some time.  By your signature,
>you are assuming that all MACs are monochrome.  This could not be further 
>from the truth.  The Amiga runs about 80% of MAC software, and all of it
>in monochrome.  The reason to get a MAC would be to run all of this
>software in true color.


I've 'heard' from a reliable source that AmaxIII will support color.


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