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From: mmoore@ux.acs.umn.edu (Malcolm Diallo Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Death Of Atari? : )
Message-ID: <4142@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 91 19:14:25 GMT
References: <30128@know.pws.bull.com  <1991Jun17.145739.4217@news.iastate.edu>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Academic Computing Services
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In article <1991Jun17.145739.4217@news.iastate.edu  taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
 In article <30128@know.pws.bull.com>, ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes:
 >
 >   What follows is a series of messages from the Atari UseNet SIG.
 [messages deleted]
 
    I have said this before, and I will say it again: I wish Amiga users 
 would forget that Atari users even exist.  Atari has become some sort of
 security blanket to Amiga people, allowing them to say 'well, things are
 certainly better than they are over at Atari...'  This is certainly true,
 but it should be of absolutely no comfort to Amiga people, because the
 Amiga has not been doing spectacualrly well either, especially in the
 U.S.
 
    How many messages about Atari do you ever see on comp.sys.mac?  I would
 like to see just as many here.  It is because Amiga people have some 
 undying infatuation with Atari that the Amiga is lumped together with the
 Atari ST by most computer industry professionals.  
   

Hey party people.

We all know that Marc Barrett is a rathead.

BUT...

This time I have to agree with him.

You see, we're all sitting here, watching Atari fall by the wayside, breathing
a sigh of relief because we're still coolin'...Which is fine and dandy, but
I'll tell you this.  We MUST act, and we must act NOW, before it's US that 
falls by the wayside.

I happen to be a former Atari user, I had an old crusty ass 800XL and I watched
as the software dwindled slowly down until there was nothing.  Damn, damn, 
damn, that's at least $1 500 down the tubes.  And I was almost dumb enough to
run up and _BUY_ an ST....before I considered the Amiga.  I looked at Amiga, 
and I was like "Hey, this is kinda suave!" Because I couldn't (and still can't)
afford a Mac and there is _NO_ _CHANCE_ _IN_ _HELL_ I would by an IBM, and
what?  I can _emulate_ a mac with this thing? And an IBM too??  Hell yes I'll
jump on it!!

Let me tell you, it's cool to be able to WALK to the nearest computer store and
find Amiga stuff there.  But if we don't quit messing around and sitting on our
asses, then we will find ourselves in the same situation Atarians are in.  I'm
talking about writing, thinking, all kinds of good shit.

Everybody had better really sit down and think about this, and yeah, that in-
cludes you Dave Haynie from Commodore, I know you read this net a lot, and I'm
serious, everybody here had better start waking up and get wit the program,
before there's no program to get _with_.

Seeyaz, I'm outtie like some old crusty sardines...

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