Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!atari!jwt
From: jwt@atari.UUCP (Jim Tittsler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: No more 8-bit support?
Message-ID: <1022@atari.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 88 22:09:50 GMT
References: <530@nunki.usc.edu>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
Lines: 12
Summary: Atari Supports the 8-bit Line

In article <530@nunki.usc.edu>, rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung) writes:
> 
>   Somebody just told me that Atari has "officially" announced that they will
> not support the 8-bit line after 1988 is over.

This is clearly NOT true.

Actually, thanks at least in part to the XE Game System, the 8-bit line is
doing quite nicely, thank you.  We are in fact experiencing an upswing in
interest, and therefore development, in the 8-bit machines.

Jim Tittsler, Atari Corporation