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From: exodus@uop.edu (G.Onufer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: What is Atari afraid of?  A Non-semi-proprietary OS?
Message-ID: <1136@uop.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 88 15:29:06 GMT
Organization: UoP-- Sun Lab Administration
Lines: 21
Keywords: MMU, Multi-Tasking, OS

setenv FLAME on

ATTN: Atari Corp.

What is the deal?  I can understand the reluctance to design and test a 
MMU for the ST series.  But when one has been SUPPLIED to you by a
company who has gambled on your machine for quite some time...  I
have been talking to a programmer at Mark Williams Company, in fact,
yesterday I was on the phone for two hours with him.  They have ported
Coherent to the ST's in-house (not recently either).  They have a MMU
they supplied you...  and you said it was being considered.  And still
being considered.  And still beign considered.  Why not just install
the thing on new machines.  Lack of a MMU us going to kill the ST for any
_real_ Operating Systems!  Take a chance.  Call ol' Jack up and tell him
to get his ass in gear.  But please do not cripple the ST's any longer.

unsetenv FLAME

PS.  I may be missing a few facts, but this is what I have heard !

Any responses?  Neil? Allan? JACK?