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Subject: Re: Atari and Comdex
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 12:07:00 EST
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RE: My computer can beat your mother's combat boots.

"	Now that Atari has a version [of BOING] all you hear
from the Amiga people is how simplistic the program is ...."

Lets be careful of what we mean by "Amiga people". We who have been going
ga ga over the Amiga have been the ones raving about the demo. It really
IS (or was) a good demo. Lots of flash. Way back when the Amiga was being
shown at SIGGRAPH, the crowds were staring at BOING. The people with the Amiga
T shirts were saying that it was one of their oldest demos, yes it looked
good, but that IT WASN'T THAT HARD TO DO. While I am not fond of what
Commodore's marketing people have done, the TV ad seemed like a stupid
parody of the MAC ads, the technical people have been fairly straight
with us.

	"On the other hand, I have yet to be convinced that the Amiga
	has enough special graphics to make up for the additional price
	($1000 vs. $2000)."

I am afraid that a lot of people will feel the same way. Unless the
Amiga can find a market niche, it will have problems. Personally, I'm
hoping that it becomes a low end engineering workstation. If the 68020
board succeeds, the Amiga could be a fairly nice under $5,000 computer.
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	harold ravlin		{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!uicsl!hr