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From: roland@cochise.pcs.com (Roland Rambau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SIMMs for the STE
Keywords: SIMM, STE,
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Date: 20 Mar 90 15:42:00 GMT
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aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson) writes:
->In article <4592@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes:
->>In article <2668@castle.ed.ac.uk> aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson) writes:
->>>Can you blame them for assuming this to be a 'feature' of the machine.
->>
->>It's people making assumptions that have given the ST a bad name so far.

->OK, I take your point Neil but I still think some sort of statement from
->Atari about what exactly the new features of the STE were would have
->helped. If there was such a statement then fair enough, it is totally

To reiterate my former remark:  It's not a journalists "assumption"!

  Atari Germany itself on last years "Systems" exhibition in Munich
provided data sheets of the new STE which promised easy expandability
to up to 4 MB. I have a specimen of this sheet!

  This promise has been repeated in Atari's advertisements in the meantime.

Since Allan ( Sorry, Allan ) uses a disclaimer, but Atari Germanys sheet
does not, I am willing to believe them, not him.
( And, btw, this expandability is the _only_ feature of the STE over the ST
which I consider relevant for me. Imagine: 4MB and NO NOISE!!! )


Roland Rambau

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