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From: jimm@mitsumi.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Sound Familiar (Tramiel Inc.)
Message-ID: <381@mitsumi.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 16:44:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: mitsumi.381
Posted: Thu Oct  1 16:44:31 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Oct-87 10:16:30 EDT
References: <5441@utcsri.UUCP> <852@atari.UUCP> <2265@druhi.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: jimm@mitsumi.UUCP (James Mackraz)
Organization: Mitsumi Technology Inc
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In article <2265@druhi.ATT.COM> med@druhi.ATT.COM (DrapalME) writes:
)In article <852@atari.UUCP>, dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer) writes:
)> 
)> Give it a rest.
)> 
)> None of the Tramiels read usenet, so you are wasting your time
)> bashing seven or eight rather over-worked software engineers.

)My, My, have we finally hit a living nerve here??? 
Aren't you the sweet one?

)*** FLAME ON *** (maybe I should have done this a few lines sooner..)
)I am really *sick and tired* of the overwhelming rash of new product
)announcements that seem to come from Atari every time some other company
)plans to announce a similar product (you folks never really believed that
)the Atari PC existed, do you?? -- If you did, I have some swamp land to
)sell, just give me a call...). 

It's not real novel to point out that Atari sux when it comes to
delivering on promises.  Neil H. admitted it, we've all read about it
here and elsewhere.  Landon's point was that you are just masturbating
(well, my interpretation) if you think your clever flames have a useful
effect on the technical troops.  Would you prefer that these busy guys
didn't even read the net?  Have you ever been in Landon's position:
trying to make a difference in a frustrating situation?  Would you
appreciate taking sh*t from weenies on the net who you try to help?

)Atari announced their PC to eclipse the
)announcement of the Amstrad PC, and amazingly enough, no one has seen it
)since.  
Darn.  I thought it was to eclipse the Commodore PC.  You're probably right,
though.

) --- Did we see it??? No, because it is a figment of "seven or eight rather
)over-worked software engineers" (sorry Landon, but those are your words, not
)mine).  

An engineer of Landon's class goes as far as to point out in writing that
it isn't the decision makers you reach by flaming on the net, and you
still think it's the engineers who pre-announced the PC?

)Guess its time for me to "give it a rest" and decide how much money I'll
)be asking for my ST....
)				Myron Drapal

Normally, it is my inclination to urge disatified Atari folks to think
about getting an Amiga.  But they can keep you, Myron.  You like flames?
Flame up on this here.  Go work on your .5% of Oryx-Pecos or whatever
it is you do on druhi.

	jimm

PS Landon: you guys really have eight software engineers?  I don't think we
had many more than that at Amiga ever.  You guys/gals writing an OS or
something?  Keep up the good work, there is a lot of empathy for
you out here from people who have shared the experience.  By the way,
you ever consider getting an Amiga?

-- 
	Jim Mackraz
	Mitsumi Technology, Inc.		408/980-5422
	{amiga,pyramid}!mitsumi!jimm