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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1991 04:06:56 GMT

In article <2045@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil> schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger) writes:
>In article <1991Apr4.021357.4013@en.ecn.purdue.edu> stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton) writes:
>>In article <n9bG2xgg1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>>>
>>>The NeXT is selling well.  They are in the $5000 market.  You just
>>>don't sell as many machines there.  Commodore has sold more machines
>>>than Sun too, but most people would buy stock in Sun.
>>
>>Really?  Sun is supposed to be selling more than 250,000 boxes this year
>>(EE Times, April 1, 1991).  How many boxes will Commodore ship?
>
>Considering that in the less than six years since the Amiga was first 
>introduced, Commodore has sold over 2 million of them, that works out to 
>an average of over 330,000 Amigas per year (and probably more, but I don't
>know when in 1985 the Amiga first started shipping, and I don't know how
>many Amiga's over the 2 million mark have been sold).  I've seen nothing
>to indicate that Commodore will be shipping Amigas at any slower rate in the
>near future, either.
>
	I believe the number over the time from July 1, 1989
through June 30, 1990 was about 550,000 machines, and Commodore
has reported that since then sales are up over 20%. As well, the
Christmas quarter showed the third largest sales of any CBM
quarter ever.

>Jeff Schweiger
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	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.
