Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!ruunsa!fysaj!muts From: muts@fysaj.fys.ruu.nl (Peter Mutsaers /100000) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Time for a New Computer: Should it be an Atari ST? Message-ID: <1332@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl> Date: 24 Jul 90 16:01:51 GMT References: <1990Jul20.162017.21823@chinet.chi.il.us> <8488@mirsa.inria.fr> Sender: news@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl Lines: 16 >> General problem: The atari ST is an endangered specie: It didn't sell enough >> to get the critical mass to interest software companies. With no successor >> (apart a vapourware TT which is already obsolete before being out), it will >> be in the same situation as the CoCo3 in one year. THe atari ST is definately NOT an endangered specie in Europe, it did sell very well here and much software is available. Maybe this is not very well distributed in the US, but good software is developped for it, which could always be ordered in Europe. Especially in Germany and Holland. (for example Turbo C, that was developped by Heimsoeth in Germany). -- Peter Mutsaers email: muts@fysaj.fys.ruu.nl Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht nmutsaer@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl Princetonplein 5 tel: (+31)-(0)30-534504 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands