Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!ucla-cs!oahu.cs.ucla.edu!stephen From: stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TOS 2.0 Keywords: TOS NEODESK DCDESKTOP ROMS Message-ID: <1990Nov6.203608.28993@cs.ucla.edu> Date: 6 Nov 90 20:36:08 GMT References: <35495@cup.portal.com> <1238@digi.lonestar.org> Sender: news@cs.ucla.edu (Mr. News) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 35 Nntp-Posting-Host: oahu.cs.ucla.edu In article <1238@digi.lonestar.org> rgoseweh@digi.lonestar.org (Roy Gosewehr) writes: >- I don't understand why everyone keeps banging on Atari to release the >TT TOS for the ST/STE. First of all, that would impact both Gribnif >(NeoDesk) and Double Click (DC Desktop). We already know how few GOOD >developers support the ST market, why make it tougher. Secondly, if >Atari came out with the TT TOS at (say) $70-$100, who would buy it? The >same people that are NOT willing to spend $30-$50 on either NeoDesk or >DC Desktop? Yeah, sure. > >I just had to get this "off my chest". :-) Please send flames to >/dev/null. This isn't a flame. I can only speak for myself, of course, but the reason _I_ keep clamoring for the TT desktop on STs and STEs is to stimulate new sales. The new desktop just plain looks better than the old one. Unless you bundle DC Desktop or NeoDesk with new STs, the computer people see in the stores will have the nasty old desktop while other computers have nice slick looking desktops (e.g. Macintosh, new Amigas, Windows 3.0). Not selling any new machines will have a much bigger impact on the companies you mention than bundling the new desktop would. As you mentioned in part of your article that I didn't quote, they can compete with the new desktop. It doesn't try to be all things to all people. Actual operating system revisions have a similar effect on new buyers. Let's sell some machines, Atari! > >R.C.Gosewehr -- Steve Whitney "It's never _really_ the last minute" (())_-_(()) UCLA Comp. Sci. Grad. Student | (* *) | Internet: stephen@cs.ucla.edu UCLA Bruin--> { \_@_/ } GEnie: S.WHITNEY `-----'