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From: michaelk@azure.UUCP (Mike Kersenbrock)
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Subject: Re: Amiga vs. ST
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Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 01:17:49 EDT
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> I hate to dampen the Amiga fire, but the Amiga is a doomed machine.
> How can I say this before 1 Amiga is sold?  Simple, this is history
> repeating it self, all over again.  Remember the Comodore C-64 and
> the Atari 800?  It was obvious to anybody, who seriously looked at
> BOTH machines, that the 800 was a better computer.  But the Atari
> cost twice as much.  Guess which one, really sold.  Want more proof?
> Looked what happened last December, Atari sells 1/2 million 800XLs
> at 89.95 while C-64 sales down 90%, and most people thought C-64
> sales down due to "soft market", how come Atari sold 1/2 million,
> price/performance.  Enough history here is today:
> 
> Amiga 256k 1 internal floppy	$1295.00	"better machine"
> Atari ST-260 1 internal floppy	$ 499.00	"1/2 the price"
> 
> Need I say more ?
> 
> 				ihnet!bryan
> 				Bryan K. DeLaney
> 				AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville IL
> 				

So how do you explain the IBM (PC/XT/AT)?

Maybe IBM will buy Commodore, and put the IBM sticker on it & call them 
entry-level workstations. Voila!

Mike Kersenbrock
Tektronix Software Development Products
Aloha, Oregon


P.S. - Note that if Atari sells twice as many 520ST's as Commodore sells
Amigas,  then Commodore will still be the bigger company in terms of
revenues.  Assuming margins are proportional, Commodore is still
the winner insofar as owners are concerned.

P.P.S.- The battle will probably won in terms of software, and just
how much momentum can be gotten "up front".  Also, the Amiga is an
"open architecture machine" which allows Commodore and add-on builders
to make money for each other (like the IBM PC).  Is the Atari 520ST
open?  Note: the Mac isn't.