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From: drs@bnl.UUCP (David R. Stampf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: The IBM emulator (R.I.P.)
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Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 20:39:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 20:39:58 1987
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Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. Upton, N.Y.
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For those who haven't seen it, the latest COMPUTE! has an interview with
Leonard Tramiel who was asked "Is that [IBM] emulator ever going to come
out?  Is it important?"

His answer was "I don't think it's that important. ...  The cost of a hardware
emulator is not going to be a heck of a lot less than a clone.  ... I think
something what's more important is something which is one of our corporate
best-kept secrets.  If you take a 3-1/2 inch disk from an IBM PC Convertible,
you can read it on an ST."

<<FLAME ON>>

Great - Next, we will find out that GDOS is not that important, the 40 folder
bug is not that important, documentation is not that important, the blitter
is not that important and (of course) the IBM emulator is not that important
-- BUT look at the good news!  At least we can all read 3-1/2 inch diskettes
from the IBM &^*@! converible.  

I don't think I will spend a nickle more on anything that makes those people
richer.  They make apple look like a benevolent company.  In fact, I think I'll
start looking for one of those new macs ....

<<FLAME OFF>>

At least it wasn't the Brooklyn Bridge.

	< dave