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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 386's, TT's, a machine I want
Message-ID: <8358@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 89 18:23:16 GMT
References: <214@fjcp60.GOV>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <214@fjcp60.GOV>, winston@fjcnet.GOV (Winston M. Llamas) says:
> Summary: software availability
> In article <0926891056429243@thelake.UUCP>, steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington) writes:

> I would hope that Atari can release their version of Unix for the TT within
> a reasonable time period of the computer's release (unlike Commodore, which 
> has promised Unix on the Amiga for years now).  

That's certainly an exaggeration.  First of all, Commodore's only had machines 
capable of running UNIX out for not quite a year now (the A2500/A2620), and they
never claimed that UNIX would ship as soon as the hardware was available to run
it.  If you're going to commit to porting UNIX to you're machine, you have to
to right, and do it right the first time.  Hopefully Atari will think similarly
if/when they do a port for their '030 machine.  You're dealing with a different
set of customers with UNIX than with the native environment.  In part, you have
much less of a distinction to offer, and you're far more likely to offer something
distinctively bad than distinctively good.  If you ship a faulty, incomplete, or
hastily ported UNIX the first time, you may not have anyone listening by the time
you get around to fixing it -- you've already built a bad reputation.  I'm glad
Commodore had enough sense to realize it has to be done right the first time
around.

> -Winston

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