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From: tribe@groucho
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Bob Brodie in Rochester (mini-review), and TT talk
Summary: Whither XEGS?
Keywords: 8-bit, death, taxes
Message-ID: <1990May3.025015.7312@groucho>
Date: 3 May 90 02:50:15 GMT
References: <1837@fredonia.UUCP>
Reply-To: tribe@ned.UUCP (Duane Tribe)
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Organization: University of Idaho, Moscow
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In article <1837@fredonia.UUCP> fredonia!sale5312@cs.buffalo.edu (Marty Saletta) writes:
>    Mr. Brodie also mentioned that Atari feels that the 130XE is no longer
>a "power without the price" computer, and will phase-out the 8-bits....

The demise of the 8-bits has been soundly thrashed out on all possible forums,
yet, what of the brave souls who bought XE-GS's?  How long will Atari continue
XE-GS cartridge development/production?  Just their fault for not buying a
nintendo?  :-P~

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Duane Tribe, Computer Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID  USA
tribe@ted.cs.uidaho.edu