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From: freed@aum.UUCP (Erik Freed)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: What next for the ST?
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 14:40:04 EST
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I will not quote all the retoric about what the ST should have and about
upgrade paths....

I feel that the ST is quite a good deal and that is all it is. It is not
realistic to expect that it have SCSI, expandability, be compatable
forever, have unix, have a better keyboard, have built in 4 meg expandability,
plug in coprocessors, etc... Anyone who is involved in hardware development
where time and expense are major factors has to just be amazed that it exists
at all. It seems that an awful lot of good things are there and that if you
wanted all the feature that a more expensive computer affords then by all means
by a more expensive computer. In a computer selling for as little as the Atari
sells for *EVERY LITTLE BIT COUNTS*. a penny saved here and there will make
or break a cheap computer. In my opinion we have a lot to be happy about and 
can certainly get around the limitations. Lets not use up the net bandwidth
by complaining about what could/should have been. Even though I would like
an expansion bus etc, Personnally, if it wasn't for the low price I would not
have anything at all...
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                           Erik James Freed
			   Aurora Systems
			   San Francisco, CA
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