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From: daryl@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Daryl Monge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Is anyone else upset at Tramiel?
Message-ID: <1910@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: Sun, 2-Aug-87 21:13:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihlpe.1910
Posted: Sun Aug  2 21:13:54 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Aug-87 03:44:25 EDT
References: <436@sugar.UUCP>
Organization: Engineering Design Process Department, AT&T Bell Labs
Lines: 15
Keywords: Atari 8-bit death
Summary: no, I am not mad

In article <436@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> Is anyone else upset at Tramiel submerging the best 6502-based micro ...

There seems to be (based on the 16 bit traffic) plenty of reasons to be less
than satisfied with some aspects of ATARI, but the cost of the 65XE compared
to the C64 and the 130XE compared to the C128 is not one of them.

When my old 800 began to bite the dust (~$900) I definitely went for the
extra memory in the 130XE (~$125!).  Ramdisks are very nice on the ATARI.
You can use the extra memory for program/data space, but my guess would be
that most use of the memory is for ramdisk.

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