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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What does the TT Buy me??
Keywords: atari, unix
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Date: 14 Nov 89 17:16:00 GMT
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In article <46d16986.14a1f@force.UUCP> covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:
>Tell that the Mac users!! Heck, a MAC SE can be upgraded to a Mac SE/30.
>sure it costs money but you can do it!!

Have you checked out the price?  If I were an SE owner, I'd keep the SE and buy
an SE/30 (the $$ difference between upgrading and buying new isn't all that much).
And then I'd have TRUE multitasking... ;-O ;-P ;->

>Why can't Atari LEARN from Apple?? I guess Atari will be synonymous with
>CHEAP in the future!!

Oh, there's a different synonym for them now?  C'mon, Richard -- they've found
their niche and exploit it fairly well.  Don't blame them for not being Apple.
Expect less from Atari; you'll live longer. ;-)

>> Looks like Atari has a very interesting product, if they do bring out
>> Unix for it and ship both in a timely fashion.
>
>Oh come on!! The MacIIci has a 25 MHZ 68030 in it!! The TT will have a 16 MHZ 68030.
>Which is outdated before it is even on the shelf!!!

Oh give me a break!  There's a rather big price jump between the 16 & 25MHz parts.
It sounds like a reasonable trade-off to me.  Assuming it ever gets on the shelf,
which is what we're all waiting for, right?

[ Deleted much, much more... ]

Will you and Greg please take your arguments to email?  Those of us who haven't
yet added an entry for "Richard E. Covert" to our kill-files would probably
appreciate it.  Everyone airs their gripes now & then (I plead guilty), but this
IS getting a bit stale...

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