[net.micro.amiga] Atari Ads

aer@alice.UucP (D. Rosenberg) (12/17/85)

I read an article in _The New York Times Today_, which confirmed my
suspicions that either Commodore or Atari will die after January or so.
Atari definitely appears to have the edge- a "cheaper," "faster," machine
with "better graphics" - or so they'd have us think.

But I saw lines like this in the "side - by - side comparison" charts in
some publications:

		ATARI 520 ST ................    COMMODORE AMIGA

	Colors:    512 			  	    (Yes)
       Resolution
  (non-interlaced) mono: 640x400	           640x200

Come on. That's plain misleading advertising.

Definitely going to be a lot of mudslinging this Christmas around Silicon
Valley and Pennsylvania..  (:-)


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tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) (12/23/85)

In article <4710@alice.UUCP> aer@alice.UucP (D. Rosenberg) writes:
>But I saw lines like this in the "side - by - side comparison" charts in
>some publications:
>
>		ATARI 520 ST ................    COMMODORE AMIGA
>
>	Colors:    512 			  	    (Yes)
>       Resolution
>  (non-interlaced) mono: 640x400	           640x200
>

I also saw this in one magazine.  Other magazines have it like this:

		ATARI 520ST ........................... COMMODORE AMIGA
colors:         512                                     4096
color output:   yes                                     yes

It looks like they just screwed up in some publications.

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.

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