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From: srp@houligan.UUCP (S R Pietrowicz)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: ST wins over Amiga
Message-ID: <235@houligan.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 09:10:05 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 19 09:10:05 1985
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>>  After reading a lot of articles about this years Comdex it is
>>becoming more obvious that Atari has already won in the ST vs.
>>Amiga wars.
>>Also, a lot of the touted software for the Amiga has yet to hit the shelves.

Obvious to you maybe...
I heard on the news that the Amiga is the #1 best seller this Christmas.
Amazing, considering there is so little software out there now.....But 
it's there! I've seen several different software releases by EA and 
Activision.  More coming in January.

>>I predict that unless Commadore can do something really spectacular to 
>>turn this around that the Amiga will fade away by the middle of next
>>year.

Hmmmm......looking at Commodore's track record and comparing it to Atari's,
MY prediction is that you're dead wrong.  Atari's 400/800 were pretty good 
machines for their time...what SUCCESSFUL machines has Atari put out since 
then?

>>A side note for ST fans:
>>Atari is now marketing a 1 meg ST in Germany with a built in
>>disk drive. Supposedly the ST is the #1 best seller in that
>>country.
>>						R.T. Bradstrum

A side note for PET fans:

Commodore's PET (remember those?) was the best selling machine over in
Europe when Apples and TRS-80s were all the rage over here.  PET never 
got the kind of recognition it deserved over here.  Being a success over
there doesn't mean it will be a success here!!!  (Has Commodore even released
the Amiga to Germany?....Maybe they don't have anything else to buy but
ST's.)

Next time you want to say how great atari is, post it to net.micro.atari...
we don't want to hear it.

'Nuff said!
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