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From: rtb@ihlpm.UUCP (Todd)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.atari
Subject: ST wins over Amiga
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 10:46:22 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 12 10:46:22 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. The main complaint about the ST was that there was
no available software. There was plenty of software to be shown
at the show. Commadore did not show up. After reading articles
in many magazines about Commadore's financial woes, the speculation
that they were too broke isn't hard to believe. Also, a lot of
the touted software for the Amiga has yet to hit the shelves.
Atari has sold more than 100,000 520STs and now that the software
is available, distributors are again having a hard time keeping
up with demand for 520STs. A few calls to Atari retailers, especially
the mail order people can verify this. 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.

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