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in article <11767@cup.portal.com>, Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) says:

> Also, I'm sure that a good chunk of those Amiga sales were the 500 which 
> was probably bought primarily as a game machine while the majority of STs 
> out there are 1040's which have much greater utility.

Huh?  While it's almost certainly true that a good portion (more than 50%)
of the Amigas being sold today are A500s, what could possibly make you think
than a 1040 ST has "much greater utility" than an A500?  If you ignore for
a moment the issues of operating system and the other things that cause flame
wars, the A500 and the 1040 ST look awfully similar:

	- 1 meg of internal memory (The A500 comes with 512K but accepts
	  an little 512K add-on card that brings it up to 1 meg.  Nearly
	  every A500 is sold with this card).

	- Internal double sided floppy disk drive

	- 68000 CPU

	- Etc and so forth.

There are certainly differences, though most of those differences are the
general differences you find between Ataris and Amigas, not specific to
these models.

> Peter Szymonik
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