aer@alice.UucP (D. Rosenberg) (12/25/85)
[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. -- ########################################################################## #D. Rosenberg "You've just seen *my* opinions." #uucp: ..{ihnp4,research,allegra}!alice!aer