Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcrware!mwca!bill From: bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Info about the Windsor Atari Show Message-ID: <1858@mwca.UUCP> Date: 9 May 91 17:02:09 GMT References: <5227.2828199f@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Santa Clara, CA Lines: 59 In article <5227.2828199f@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes: >...Bob Brodie for US Atari and Jeff "something" from Canada Atari talked >for a little while, and then held a Q&A session. Some of the key points >are: Bob spoke at a Bay Area user's group last night, here are some of his comments related to his Windsor comments: >FSM GDOS will cost <$100, but I don't remember a release date. (He (Bob) >didn't give a definate date though) It will (eventually) be shipped with Mega STE's and TT's, but isn't currently. He didn't know whether current Mega STE and TT owners would get free copies. The cost is due to the fact it uses Ultrascript Type I fonts, which are owned by Imagen and need to be licensed. >Atari has purchased the source code to Word Up! but Bob couldn't say >what for. He suggested to us that Atari would be making it work like "they think it should" (i.e., fix the bugs), but didn't know whether it would be sold, bundled, etc. >...They plan on phasing out the Stacy in favor of the ST notebook, which >will be shown at Fall Comdex. He told us that he expects the Notebook will become the portable of choice, but there are no plans to drop or discontinue the Stacy, and that musicians really don't care about battery use, just ease of transport (for which the Stacy is fine). >Thats about everything I can remember now, I wish I would've took a tape >recorder with me, or at least a notebook!! (I will be prepared for the >next one though. (In Chicago in November) Other comments... Efforts are being made (no details on by whom) to allow the Atari CD-ROM to use existing PC-based disks (such as Microsoft Bookshelf)... MultiGEM is being worked on... Atari US is going to be much more aggressive at getting the limited production of computers, many of which are now going to Atari Germany... High-end publishers continue to be amazed by the blazing speed of an ST/TT with an Atari laser printer and Calamus... He related an amusing anecdote of how they demonstrated Calamus at a Mac User's Group meeting, totally astounding the attendees with Calamus' speed and price, and how upset the Timeworks rep was to hear that Calamus was $199 versus Publish It's $349, and then how they went to an Atari User's Group meeting, and the attendees were outraged about how expensive Calamus was!! -- ############################################################################## # Bill Sheppard -- bills@microware.com -- {uunet,sun}!mcrware!mwca!bill # # Microware Systems Corporation --- OS-9: Seven generations beyond OS/2!! # ######Opinions expressed are my own, though you'd be wise to adopt them!######