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From: chu@acsu.buffalo.edu (john c chu)
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Subject: Re: Atari slanders Micro RTX and MT C-Shell
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Date: 6 Aug 90 03:04:10 GMT
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In article <1990Aug6.022523.26967@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
[market for TT:]
>1) upgrade for the existing ST "power user". You can run most all ST
>   software on it, so there's your software base.

Hopefully, my name's not recognised as being an "Atari Cheerleader" or
"Atari Nay-sayer" (both misnomers IMHO) but...

I would love to believe that Atari has the current user base in mind
with regard to the TT. An excellent confirmation of this would be to
announce an upgrade path for the ST so that ST owners could migrate up
to the TT. However, if track record is any indication...  

(I know, if Atari is changing (or is about to change) to become a
better company, then track record can't be any indication because it
no longer reflects the attitudes of the company. Also, my view of the
track record involves the situation in the US which, as we all know,
is not universal.)

Still, I can hope.

>
>As usual, we aren't going to find out what's really going on until the
>TT hits the shelves. We can sit around all day guessing about things we
>don't know, and we won't get anywhere.

Agreed.

					john
				chu@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu