Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!jmg
From: jmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mega vs 1040ST
Message-ID: <612@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 15:34:10 GMT
References: <8801260928.AA28508@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1425@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
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Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <1425@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> tw@cscosl.UUCP (Thomas Wolf) writes:
>Maybe in the near future (?!?) even WE will become worthy of the blitter 
>chip.  Let's all prey (in the general direction of Atari Headquarters) for such
>a miracle :-)

We pray.
Atari might prey (on us).
Not all of Europe has the blitter yet!

Since I have the floor, metaphorically speaking, I would say that a couple
of years ago Atari was well up front, and certainly ahead of Am*ga.
However, for the last year we have waited (in vain) for progress such
as the Blitter etc., and they have lost their edge.
Am*ga, meanwhile, has advanced a lot (even if they are affected by a virus).

I don't personally give a $*!t about 68020-based or transputer-based
future products: I do care about support and upgrade paths for products
that I buy. If I get the impression that a firm sells only different
products, each of which is then non-upgradeable to anything else then
I start thinking of going elsewhere.

Come on, Atari, get that bl**dy blitter out and available to ST users
			    EVERYWHERE.