Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mc4c+ From: mc4c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Choi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: GREG (was HEY, YOU!!!!!!!) Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 91 03:31:46 GMT References: <0bp3ksq00WAu4HgVQy@andrew.cmu.edu> <1991Mar6.015709.21377@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Mar9.163848.5477@cc.helsinki.fi>, <1991Mar11.181829.6953@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: <1991Mar11.181829.6953@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.atari.st: 11-Mar-91 Re: HEY, YOU!!!!!!! > Gregory Carter@cat27.cs. (468) > As for NeXT, you forget NeXT has some of the most advanced production > facilities in the western Hemisphere. This kinda of > automation/efficiency > makes NeXT machines very affordable, this enables NeXT to make a nice > profit too! Didn't really forget, just thought that everyone knew that Atari was lousy at engineering :^) [ really :^( ] ! I mean, how does it happen that they can *never* seem to get past the FCC? What gives? And Steve-o, (a former Atari employee, I believe (he stole parts form Atari, and the Woz nabbed stuff from HP to make the first Apple I)) is a start-up. Why can't Atari get some capital together, start form scratch, learn from their blunders (and, more importantly, from other successes) and get it right this time? > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.atari.st: 11-Mar-91 Re: HEY, YOU!!!!!!! > Gregory Carter@cat27.cs. (468) > Now if ATARI had access to the kind of production facilities NeXT has > you could > probably pick up my MEGA STE for about 250 dollars! And don't forget, Greg, it would be 5 inches by 7 inches, weigh 2.75 pounds, have a 2400 Bd fax modem, a 1.44 meg drive, and support a real graphics mode! Well. I guess then it would have to cost $350!