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From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari slanders Micro RTX and MT C-Shell
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Date: 9 Aug 90 18:49:30 GMT
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In article <4236@bdt.UUCP> david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) writes:
>
>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".
>they don't work very well is simply untrue.
>
>Aside from that issue, is this any way to run a business Atari?
>
>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.

If you would be kind enough to provide me with the appropriate
addresses, I'd be more than happy to send a letter of support.
It is patently obvious that this company has no idea how to
run a business.  A simply look at their profit record for the
last 5 years confirms this.

>
>Thank you for your support.

No problem.  You deserve it.

>-- 
>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"

Chris

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