Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: IBM->Atari Message-ID: Date: 19 Oct 90 09:09:19 GMT References: <1990Oct18.014857.9891@contact.uucp> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: rrwood@contact.uucp's message of 18 Oct 90 01:48:57 GMT >>>>> On 18 Oct 90 01:48:57 GMT, rrwood@contact.uucp (roy wood) said: > And have you ever wondered why this newsgroup still exists? Or why you > still have your old 8-bit? It would have been nice if piracy and bad > management hadn't killed the machine... The Atari 8-bits were doomed to obsolescence a long time ago, regardless of the effects piracy and bad management had on the machine. Out of all its contemporaries, only the Commodore 64 remained viable to today, and even then that machine is rapidly dying its death. The Atari 8-bits were advanced, innovative, ground-breaking machines in their day. But progress marches forward... --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics, Inc. portuesi@sgi.com Integration, not segregation or assimilation.