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From: alderaan@netmbx.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How is Atari doing in Germany?
Summary: "Commodore" is strong, but ...
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Date: 11 Nov 88 02:32:34 GMT
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In article <706@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>, pa1132@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (pa1132) writes:
> Can anyone from Germany tells us what happening there?  Is the share
> of market belonging to Atari being eaten away by the Amiga?  Atari
> is always "proud" of their success in Europe, but many sources seem
> to indicate that the last stronghold of Atari is also lost to Amiga.
> Someone in comp.sys.amiga said that "Commodore" is the best selling
> computer in Germany.  which Commodore?  C64/128 or Amiga 500?  I
> guess it's the Amiga 500.  Now see what else Atari will
> say.  Perhaps the only thing Atari is preparing to do is to go
> bankruptcy.

Er, based on my information, Atari and CBM have near equal market shares
here in Germany, if you look only on the 68k machines. Atari has a little
bonus because the ST was released half a year before AMIGA 1000.

On the 8bit market, the XL/XE systems were not very successful (I wonder
why because the hardware and the Operating system of the Ataris was much
better and cheaper). C64 had about 80%, I think (I don't have a percentage).

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