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From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: David Small versus Atari
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.014744.22640@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 1 Mar 91 01:47:44 GMT
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Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
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In article <3658@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> scoile@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Steve Coile) writes:
>I got to discussing alternate possibilities to Atari...
>Where does the TRUE spirit of Atari lay now?  David Small...
>...  So what if Dave decides to market an ST compatible?...
>... Whaddaya say people?  Would Dave have a market?

My main gripes about Atari are that promised products/upgrades don't show
up until they're nearly obsolete, there are artificial limitations in the
systems (e.g. the MMU craps on you if you try to go over 4MB, even if you're
willing to put in your own addressing H/W), and some perfectly good standards
are ignored, apparently just to lock you in to Atari stuff (e.g. ACSI vs SCSI).
If Dave Small were to produce a system that didn't have artificial limitations,
that went more with standards (including especially graphics S/W standards, such
as their sorry state is now), and produced products in a timely way (as he has
in the past), I'd probably be interested.  Right now, the NeXT looks somewhat
attractive to me, because I can get one for ~$3100.  But Jobs has gone off in
his usual orthogonal-to-the-rest-of-the-world direction (NeXT Step and Display
PostScript?).
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