Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!usc!rutgers!columbia!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixa.cc.columbia.edu!cmm1 From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari Financial condition Message-ID: <1990Mar25.071703.3839@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 25 Mar 90 07:17:03 GMT References: <5780001@acf5.NYU.EDU> <3204@draken.nada.kth.se> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 41 In article <3204@draken.nada.kth.se> perand@nada.kth.se (Per Andersson) writes: >In article <5780001@acf5.NYU.EDU> mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides) writes: >>Yes that must be the (agreably) complex process >>of designing a computer working at 16 (sixteen!) MHz >>[ lots more] > >Why shouldn't it be complex and expensive to construct a new computer ? >And why should it help that IBM constructed a brain-dead computer based >on a brain-dead chip in '81. Atari didn't base this construction on this >and therefor your flame on Atari seems out of place. You can buy a PC >instead of flaming Atari for making machines adressing more than 1 meg >of memory. Not sure what your comment was indicating, really ? > >Per >-- >--- >Per Andersson >Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden >perand@admin.kth.se, @nada.kth.se Give me a break. I think that Atari (correct me if I'm wrong) is WAY behind the competition as far as R&D is concerned. They are going down. You heard it here first. They cannot afford the R&D cash to keep up with current technology. They didn't even invent the Portfolio or the ATW, they licensed the technology from the inventors. Where is all that R&D cash going??? Is it going to the improvement in TOS (giggle...heee heee ho ho ho)? Atari's operating costs are increasing at an alarming rate, yet they are not producing anything new. (Do I hear violins playing??) Chris ------------------------------+--------------------------- Chris Mauritz |Where there's a BEER, cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu |there's a plan. (c)All rights reserved. | Send flames to /dev/null |Need I say more? ------------------------------+---------------------------