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From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Question 3: How's Commodore doing?
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Date: 8 Jan 90 00:25:42 GMT
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>Don't count on it this for a long time. For every Amiga, there are 30
>to 40 PC's out there, many of which are owned by businesses with

Bzzzt. Try 12 to 15. There are something like 15 or 16 million PC's
out there and a bit over a million Amigas.

>Commodore would have to sell a heck of a lot more than 100000 Amigas
>for Bill to even think about getting into the Amiga market.

I believe the deal was if Commodore could sell 100,000 Amiga units in
4q89, Microsoft would start porting stuff. This is what the guy asking
the original question wanted to know.

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