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From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 in the UK
Message-ID: <1371@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Sep 89 16:08:36 GMT
References: <3105@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Organization: SPRU, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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From article <3105@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>, by neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth):
> Note: This is a heavily trimmed article. You've just no idea how much white
> heat flaming at Atari UK I had in it before!

I think I can guess. I have to struggle to be polite too.

> 
> What have Atari (UK) got against owners of Atari computers?
> I think Atari UK have had the ROMS as long as any other subsiduary but have
> not worked out their maximum profit making marketing strategy for them yet.
> We are registered developers and bought the dev kit so that we (and our
> students) would know the ST inside out. Not to develope amazing programs
> to sell more ST's. No newletters in 2 years, no mention of Mega specific
> hardware, S.A.L.A.D, SM194 Moniterm, Maths coprocessor, STacey, aln upgrade,
> madmac upgrade or db. Argh!
> 

Yes, I can confirm that.  I'm not a registered developer myself, but I
know two people on my campus who are.  Neither has TOS 1.4.  Neither
has mentioned to me receiving any of the items mentioned by Neil.

At our university there are literally hundreds of STs.  They are very
nearly great machines, and when the bulk of our purchases were made
the ST had great promise.  Over the years, though, we've become more
and more disillusioned with Atari as a company.  Unless Atari UK can
show more commitment to users there will either be a gradual move away
to other machines or there decisions will be taken to replace whole
batches of STs with something from another company.

Graham

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