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From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari slanders Micro RTX and MT C-Shell
Message-ID: <4243@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 90 19:11:14 GMT
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Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA
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I spoke with Frank Foster at the San Jose World of Atari show this
past weekend, and he admitted to me that he has never actually seen
Micro RTX nor MT C-Shell and that he doesn't really know anything
about them.  He also said the he is "just a marketing guy".

Well we all know it's really good marketing strategy to tell the
world your own possibly someday to be released product that doesn't
actually exist for sale yet is better than sliced toast and anything
that already exists which might be mentioned as possible competition
to your own product is a "kludge" and doesn't work very well, even
if you don't know anything about it!

Well of course, this clears the whole thing up!  I don't remember
seeing a disclaimer that "Frank Foster doesn't really know what he's
talking about" in the Start article.  I guess they're assuming that
this will be perfectly clear to anyone who reads the article.

I don't think so.  Some people might just read that article and assume
that Frank Foster, the Atari Corp. representative, is the expert and
that he would know what works and what doesn't work.

It must be nice to have the power to blast any product you want, and
get it published in the largest ST magazine in the USA and get away
with it.
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