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From: ln63fkn@sdcc7.UUCP (Paul van de Graaf)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari,net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Atari and Comdex
Message-ID: <206@sdcc7.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 04:23:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 04:23:09 1985
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Reply-To: ln63fkn@sdcc7.UUCP (Paul van de Graaf)
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In article <320@well.UUCP> farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren) writes:
>   The impression I get of Atari lately (and don't get me wrong, I basically
>like Atari's stuff) is that they will stop at NOTHING to get the public to
>believe in their superiority, and if this includes providing insufficient
>information for a true, objective comparison, well, thats the way it goes.

Atari is not pushing superiority, only price/performance ratio.  If price is
your only concern, then clearly the ST is superior.  Having a mac/amiga/ST
side-by-side demonstration lets the buyer decide.  Atari's strong point is a
price around half the competition's.  Even if their comparisons are "unfair",
are they $1000.00 worth unfair?  No!  Amiga and Apple should stop pandering
"yuppie ads" and offer some substantive ads of their own if they feel 
mistreated.  Apple could stress their "superior" user interface, and Amiga
could stress its superior graphics hardware and multitasking software.

Paul van de Graaf		sdcsvax!sdcc7!ln63fkn		U. C. San Diego