nj@ndmath.UUCP (Narciso Jaramillo) (11/08/87)
In article <5828@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) writes: > In article <1779@charon.unm.edu> hansb@ariel.UUCP (Hans Bechtel) writes: > >(in Spanish, "amiga" means girlfriend) > (so does "Amiga" mean GirlFriend?) Actually (no flames please; I took Spanish long ago and could be wrong) I thought "amiga" meant "female friend", rather than "girlfriend" per se with all the connotations of the latter. It would be pretty kinky to say "my girlfriend is a computer", not to mention making you look pretty weird...or nerdish :-) nj -- nj: ...!{pur-ee, rutgers, uunet}!iuvax!ndmath!nj, ...!ucbvax!mica!nj
mjsagar@sandia.gov (9123 SAGARTZ, MATHIAS J.) (11/20/89)
It's a little known fact but the calculator people invented reverse Polish notation to prepare kids for becoming C programmers. Atari, like Commodore, is feeling the slowdown in the PC market. Of course they are a little more deversified with their games. Last quarter they took a loss of 5.4 million on a sales decline of 17% compared with the year earlier quarter. So far this year their sales are off 15%. What fraction of their sales are computers I don't know. For perspective in the PC market, Commodore is a little under a billion dollars a year (in sales) company so they are about twice the size of Atari. Compaq is better than a 2 billion dollars/year company and Apple is well over the 5 billion dollar mark. It's interesting to note that the stock market values Atari at about twice what it does Commodore. Value is the number of shares times the price per share.