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From: K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ATARI buys Federated
Message-ID: <8708280010.AA14862@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 21:48:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 21:48:23 1987
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What I love about ATARI spending 67Mega$ on a Californian electronics shop
chain, is that they are spending the profits ATARI made in Europe, in
particular german speaking Europe (we surely have the highest
ATARI ST/population ratio in the world here), where they wont even spend
1k$ on a developers newsletter and where developers still have the
original version of Alycon C and just get a blank look from Atari people if
they mention something called 'updates'. Just suggesting to somebody here
that ATARI swaps complete computers for 90$, is likely to get you locked up in
a safe place.

Anyway if ATARI thinks that buying a chain of stores is going to help
the 'TOY MAKER' image ATARI has, then they've gone completly crazy:

      ANY COMPUTER THAT CRASHES BECAUSE YOU HAVE A EXECEDED A 'NON-
      DETERMINISTIC' LIMIT ('40' FOLDERS) IS A


      TTTTTTTTTT    OOOOOOOO   YY      YY      !!!
          TT        OO    OO    YY    YY       !!!
          TT        OO    OO     YY  YY        !!!
          TT        OO    OO      YYYY         !!!
          TT        OO    OO       YY          !!!
          TT        OO    OO       YY
          TT        OO    OO       YY          !!!
          TT        OOOOOOOO       YY          !!!

      Not to mention all the other goofs: GDOS, Blitter ................
      ..................................................................


                         Simon Poole
                         K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET