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From: lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Death Of Atari? : )
Message-ID: <7327@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 91 18:30:34 GMT
References: <30128@know.pws.bull.com> <1991Jun17.145739.4217@news.iastate.edu>
Organization: Lemming-Aid 1992 - Benefit Concert To Save The Lemmings
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In article <1991Jun17.145739.4217@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
| 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.  

What a totally stupid assumption on your part. That has nothing to do
with it. Amiga people are interested in whats happening at Atari
because at one time they were our only competition. They used to brag
quite a bit on how the ST was selling 4 to 1 over the Amiga back in
the early days when things were just starting out for the Amiga. It
was a real race to see who would hang on with the big boys trying to
close in on the low-end market. 

True as it is that Atari is no longer a real threat to the Amiga, let
alone anyone else, it is still interesting to hear what is going on in
their market. It could be signs of what the Amiga is headed for if
things don't turn around soon.

But your assumption that our fascination with the ST market is why
everyone else lumps us in the same catagory is an amazingly stupid
comment.

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