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From: aer@alice.UucP (D. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari,net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Reply to Atari Ads
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Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 22:39:59 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 24 22:39:59 1985
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[In article <188@ism780c.UUCP>, Tim Smith, aka tim@ism780c.UUCP says:]

> "As for misleading advetising, did you know the Amiga has a meg of ram?
> That was my first reaction to the ad that says the Amiga has twice as
> much memory as a Macintosh.  At least Atari tells you what exactly they
> are comparing against."

Now wait a minute. Atari doesn't exactly tell us what they are comparing
against. The 520 ST supposedly has 512 kilobytes of RAM- or so Atari
says in its ads, pointing at the 256K Amiga. But, ~ 200 kilobytes on the 
Atari is used for TOS... and an Amiga (advertised as 256K) actually has
extra memory (about 200K, I believe) that *it* uses for *its* operating
system. At least Commodore tells us how much memory ya _really_ have.

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