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Article #1702Re: Reply to Atari Ads
From: D. Rosenberg
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1985 03:39
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1985 03:39
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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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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!aer From: aer@alice.UucP (D. Rosenberg) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari,net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: Reply to Atari Ads Message-ID: <4744@alice.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 22:39:59 EST Article-I.D.: alice.4744 Posted: Tue Dec 24 22:39:59 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Dec-85 06:17:39 EST Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 18