Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unisoft!gethen!farren
From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari no-support?
Message-ID: <726@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 88 14:58:32 GMT
References: <192@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> <864@usl-pc.UUCP> <1003@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <3334@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <318@nunki.usc.edu> <153@bdt.UUCP> <345@nunki.usc.edu>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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Keywords: customer relations

In article <345@nunki.usc.edu> rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung) writes:
>  We know Jack Tramiel can make things move when he really wants to; Putting
>together a prototype 68000 machine in six months is an amazing task.

Yes, it would have been amazing, had it actually happened.  When Tramiel
took over Atari, though, there were already people working on a 68000 machine,
and had been for some time.  Those people were, essentially, the only
ones that Tramiel kept when he purged the company.  While the final ST
design might have had significant Tramiel influence (it looks it - it's
cheap enough), it's pretty clear that the groundwork had been laid before
he ever came on the scene.

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