Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!grahamt From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham S Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Constructive? Message-ID: <4804@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Date: 5 Apr 91 13:13:28 GMT References: Organization: SPRU, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, UK Lines: 33 From article , by mc4c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Choi): > You want constructive, TRH? Here it is. > It's nice to see what started as a bit of a slanging match ending (I hope) in a constructive dialogue. I'm not competent to evaluate them, but there were certainly some interesting suggestions in Mark's article. > We need to get the jump on the market, or else you > may find that the market has gotten away. It may interest/sadden people to know that Atari UK's marketing manager (Peter Stadden, if I've remembered his name correctly), in an interview published in the UK weekly 'New Computer Express' dated April 6th, was hoping that the machines shown at CeBIT would be with UK dealers in 18 months. I don't know what the market for handwriting recognition will be in October 1992, but I'd expect the notebook market to have moved on a bit from the current ST_Book spec by then. Perhaps Peter Stadden is just being conservative (or perhaps Atari UK has slipped down the pecking order for new product releases). Most of the rest of the interview was about how Atari UK are trying to move from a games image to that of a company supporting serious applications on its 680x0 range. I hope the company succeeds, but I can't help feeling that the move is at least three years too late. I should stop at this point, as I started out by praising Mark for being constructive, and I can feel myself sliding into doom 'n gloom mode... Graham -- Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK INTERNET: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk JANET: grahamt@uk.ac.sussex.syma BITNET: grahamt%sussex.syma@UKACRL UUCP: grahamt%sussex.syma@ukc.uucp Phone: +44 273 678165 Fax: +44 273 685865