Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdcsu!mgardi
From: mgardi@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (M.Gardi - ICR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: The nature of competition
Message-ID: <4536@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 88 22:20:37 GMT
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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A quote recently flashed by on the broadcast news channel today:

	"If you are not your own competition, someone else surely will."

To whom do we owe this gem ? (sorry)  None other than our own Jack Tramiel.

Well Atari, I think it's time to take your own advice...  When the ST
came out, I was truely impressed.  Never before had such a powerful machine
been available to the 'masses'.  The ST had a lot of promise, and still
could have promise with the proper approach by Atari.  I think the new
hardware such as the 68030 box and the ABAQ are great... BUT support
what you already have.  I have always been an atari supporter, but I
refuse to invest any more time or effort in a machine and company for
which there is no support.

The ST is still an impressive machine. Come on Atari, whip up some
enthusiasm for the ST, bring out the blitter, a new set of ROMS,
give GDOS to the masses, advertise and help support small developers.
I know all of these have associated costs, but

	If you are not your own competition, someone else surely will.



Climbing down from my soapbox,

David Rowley
A disheartened atari developer