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From: ekrimen@csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
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Subject: Re: Educational Discounting
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Date: 13 Oct 90 01:02:08 GMT
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kawakami@earthquake.Berkeley.EDU (John Kawakami) writes:

- BTW, since this is an atari group: why does atari have so many 
- versions of the same machine: the STes, the Megas, the Stacy.  Note,
- there are many macs as well: Plus, SE, SE/30, IIxx.  but the
- capabilities of the different machines are somewhat varied.  The STs
- are all basically the same machines with the same clock speed and
- processor; they differ only in memory.
 
They use only one processor because TOS 1.0, 1.2, and 1.4 only works 
with a 68000 (Although we know about those guys in Europe.  But then
Atari Corp. is too stubborn.).
 
- Shouldn't Atari just make...
 
Interesting choice of words. :^)  Atari should do a lot of things, 
but they don't.  Hopefully this will change after COMDEX.  IT HAD 
BETTER!
 
Atari should do a lot of other things for the ST, but they don't.  
They like to dabble in other markets with the Portfolio, Lynx, and 
those wonderful pocket calculators.  We hope that Uncle Jack, in his 
infinite wisdom :^), is right on this part.  Atari Corp. is growing, 
although few people can explain its stock price.  We would also like 
to see the ST do better in the US at least, but alas, we must wait 
for Atari to make the moves.
 
- - the Mega box and have SIMM sockets.  OOPS forgot about Stacy.  
- They should keep Stacy.
 
The STe's and TT should be a good change from the conventional STs.  
Although the STe is still considered a 'closed box,' you can upgrade 
its memory easily and add a faster processor like a 68030 fairly 
easily, from what I understand.  Moreover, I played some Noisetracker
modules on my STe and they sound spectacular.

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