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From: dgy@sigmast.UUCP (Dave Yearke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GemDraw GemWrite
Message-ID: <106@sigmast.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 07:28:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: sigmast.106
Posted: Tue Sep 15 07:28:29 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Sep-87 01:42:09 EDT
References: <2182@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: dgy@sigmast.UUCP (Dave Yearke)
Organization: Sigma Systems Technology, Inc., Buffalo NY
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Keywords: missing defunct why?

In article <2182@ihlpf.ATT.COM> rtb@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Todd) writes:
>
>It seems obvious now that Gemwrite and GemDraw will never be
>available for the ST. I am posting this article because
>I am curious. Does anybody have any theories as to why these
>two programs died on the vine?

Talking with some people at Atari recently, I got the impression that
they felt they just couldn't compete with third-party products such
as DEGAS, and that they felt NeoChrome and Microsoft Write would be
better products when they were ready.

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		Dave Yearke, Sigma Systems Technology, Inc.
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