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From: Graham@ucl-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How is Atari doing in Germany?
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Date: 18 Nov 88 13:19:04 GMT
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>Can anyone from Germany tells us what happening there?
I'm not German but British (still European :-)

>Is the share of market belonging to Atari being eaten away by the Amiga?
No. What has happened over the last year is that Commodore has
finally started selling the Amiga seriously and at the same
time the market for 16-bit machines has greatly increased. The
result has been a lot more 16-bit machines sold (ST/Amiga &
PC).

>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.
Atari is doing very well and definitely not being "beaten". As
I said above, Commodore is selling more machines in an
expanding market (and so is Atari).

>Someone in comp.sys.amiga said that "Commodore" is the best selling
>computer in Germany.  which Commodore?  C64/128 or Amiga 500?
Probably the C64 - this machine is also being heavily pushed in
Britain and will outsell the Amiga several times over during
christmas.


Don't worry, Atari is alive and well in Europe. All the talk
about dying etc. is rubbish.

Graham
grahamr@uk.ac.ucl.cs
Dept. of Computer Science
University College London