Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unisoft!bdt!david
From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Atari slanders Micro RTX and MT C-Shell
Message-ID: <4236@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 90 07:22:31 GMT
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools
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In the August 1990 issue of Start magazine there is an article
called "Multitasking On The ST".  In this article Frank Foster
from Atari Corp. is quoted as saying that Micro RTX and MT C-Shell
"[work] but not very well" and that all current multitasking
systems for the ST are "kludges".

Micro RTX and MT C-Shell are products developed and marketed by
Beckemeyer Development.  These are multitasking software products
for the Atari ST.  They were first released in 1986 and have been
steadily updated and improved upon since that time.  Beckemeyer
Development recently released a sharware version of Micro RTX
so that all Atari ST users could have access to true multitasking.
As anyone who uses these programs knows, the statement that
they don't work very well is simply untrue.

Aside from that issue, is this any way to run a business Atari?

Beckemeyer Development released their first Atari ST software product
in 1985.  Beckemeyer Development is one of the few vendors that has
been able to survive the turbulent Atari years.  Most Atari ST
software developers that existed at the beginning of 1986 are no
longer in the Atari ST business.  Many simply couldn't handle
Atari Corp. policies and politics.  In fact, it seems like only a
handful of Atari employees were able to stick with Atari all these
years.  Frank Foster wasn't at Atari Corp. in 1986.  (I think he was
with another company at that time, one that produced Atari ST software,
and I believe, does so no more.)

Do you think this is an appropriate way for Atari to treat their
long-term loyal software developers?  Atari expects vendors to
produce software for their system and support it, while at the
same time, they slander those same vendors in offical Atari Corp.
statements to the press.

Personally I am outraged by these comments.  I'm asking you to
help support me and write Start Magazine and Atari Corp. expressing
your reaction to these statements.  There are only a few Atari ST
developers left, and with practices like these, Atari is going to
lose even more.

Thank you for your support.
-- 
David Beckemeyer			| "To understand ranch lingo all yuh
Beckemeyer Development Tools		| have to do is to know in advance what
P.O. Box 21575, Oakland, CA 94620	| the other feller means an' then pay
UUCP: {uunet,ucbvax}!unisoft!bdt!david	| no attention to what he says"