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From: njd@ihlpm.ATT.COM (DiMasi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: No more 8-bit support?
Message-ID: <1792@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 88 00:24:05 GMT
References: <530@nunki.usc.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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> ...
>   Somebody just told me that Atari has "officially" announced that they will
> not support the 8-bit line after 1988 is over.
> 
>   Can anyone confirm/deny this? The speaker is not known for Atari bashing or
> practical jokes, but nobody else I know has heard of this...

Careful - that probably depends on what you  mean  by  "support."    I
have read in a recent article in ANALOG (4/88 issue, by Matt Ratcliff,
the 8-bit expert) that Atari seems to want to stop producing any  more
NEW  UPGRADES  (i.e, machines with more RAM than the 130XE) for the 8-
bits.  I have  seen  nothing  (and  I  read  the  messages  on  Delphi
regularly,  where  the ANALOG magazine editors and even [occasionally]
Neil Harris of Atari Inc.  hold forth) that indicates that  Atari  has
any  plans to stop making or "supporting" the 8-bits.  If you call the
lack of new h/w upgrades for the machines a  lack  of  support,  well,
that's another way of looking at it.

Nick DiMasi
Uni'q Digital Technologies (Fox Valley Software subsidiary;
   ^          working as a contractor at AT&T Bell Labs in Naperville, IL)
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