murphy@pur-phy@canremote.uucp (murphy@pur-phy) (12/21/89)
From: murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) Subj: "Comodore fires big guns for the Amiga" Orga: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN In article <25164@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: >Confirming Joe's report of the San Jose Mercury News' article about the >Amiga. > >However, here's a DIRECT and EXACT paragraph from the article; see if you can >figure out what "costs more than $2,000 less" means. That's just ONE of many >unusual things in the article. Sigh. Well, at least it's a start! :-) Inserting a comma at the appropriate place makes the statement clear. " The recently announced Amiga 2500/30 model, sporting a 68030 processor running at 25 megahertz (sic), 2 megabytes of RAM, a math co-processor and a 40-megabyte hard drive, costs more than $2,000, less than its Macintosh IIci counterpart. " ^ -- Bill Murphy murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu --- * Via MaSNet/HST96/HST144/V32 - UN Amiga * Via Usenet Newsgroup comp.sys.amiga