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From: ericco@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric C. Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari slanders Micro RTX and MT C-Shell
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Date: 7 Aug 90 08:43:32 GMT
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In article <1990Aug6.022523.26967@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>Actually, someone from Atari talked a little about their marketing
>thoughts and the TT. It has 2 major markets:
>...
>2) low-end Unix workstation. ...

Atari should market from its only position of strength -- bang for the buck.
Atari should not develop software -- they not have the will.

My thought for the day is that they should market a low-end sparc machine.
Let Sun write the OS and make the market.  Atari should wrap the sparc
in plastic, throw in a keyboard, offer a black & white monitor or an 8 bit
color monitor (adding the Atari label to 3rd party suppliers).  Offer the
system with an ethernet card OR a 100MB hard disk.

This would merge the pc and workstation markets.  I'm sure Atari can enter
and surpass the Xterm market.

I suppose this position is too aggresive for Atari.

BTW, would some create the c.s.a.s.tech newsgroup again.  I still don't
get it.  The S/N here has dropped dramatically.

Eric


Eric
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