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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Death Of Atari? : )
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Date: 17 Jun 91 14:57:39 GMT
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In article <30128@know.pws.bull.com>, ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes:
>
>   What follows is a series of messages from the Atari UseNet SIG.
[messages deleted]

   I have said this before, and I will say it again: I wish Amiga users 
would forget that Atari users even exist.  Atari has become some sort of
security blanket to Amiga people, allowing them to say 'well, things are
certainly better than they are over at Atari...'  This is certainly true,
but it should be of absolutely no comfort to Amiga people, because the
Amiga has not been doing spectacualrly well either, especially in the
U.S.

   How many messages about Atari do you ever see on comp.sys.mac?  I would
like to see just as many here.  It is because Amiga people have some 
undying infatuation with Atari that the Amiga is lumped together with the
Atari ST by most computer industry professionals.  
  
>   Tom
>
>       Why purchase a MAC when an Amiga with the same CPU will run 99% of all
>    __ MAC software..and FASTER at that?! The same can be said of the IBM and
> __/// Atari computers, and I can run those in a window. IBM's greatest sales 
> \XX/  tool is ignorance on the consumer's part. IBM=(I)'ve (B)een (M)islead.
>A      If you want to be popular then buy a MAC....If you want to be powerful
> M     then buy an Amiga..and use all that money you save to buy friends. :')
>  I    Classic=B&W, no blitter, no DMA, almost no sound, almost no expansion,
>   G   price tag of $1000. Amiga 500=4096 colors, DMA galore, great sound, an
>    A  86 pin expansion port, price tag of $500. Confused? Only the Amiga!!!! 

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