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From: bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (BRUCE SZABLAK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari no-support?
Message-ID: <71@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 88 13:01:10 GMT
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It's clear to me anyway, that Atari's management has lost faith in the
ST line's ability to compete in the long term with the IBM clone market.
That would explain their reluctance to spend the money to finish the job
they started: provide documentation, software, firmware, and hardware
inhancements.

My biggest beef has been with the documentation that I
recall being promised about 2 years ago. If I were the publisher of
Abacus books (the only commercially available technical reference for the
ST in English - even if it is of uneven quality), I would have sued Atari
for overhanging the market; I didn't buy the Abacus books at because
of Atari's "promise" to publish technical references.

By the way, before someone points out that Compute! publishes technical
references I'll just say that I looked at them and found them to be
lacking in the extreme (I'm being generous in my praise).