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From: govett@avsd.UUCP (David Govett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari no-support?
Message-ID: <54@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 88 16:14:45 GMT
References: <148leigh@byuvax.bitnet> <2064@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <2783@druhi.ATT.COM> <71@lzaz.ATT.COM> <190@bdt.UUCP>
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> In article <71@lzaz.ATT.COM> bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (BRUCE SZABLAK) writes:
> >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.
> 
> I would take this one step farther and say that it is clear to me, that
> Atari's management has no faith in Atari Corp.'s ability to compete in
> the long term with the entire US computer market, especially the business
> market.
> 

At the Hannover Fair last week, one of the Flying Tramiel Brothers said
that, since iratA gets 60% of its (16-bit ?) revenues from Deutschland,
the US market would suck hind tit, not to put too fine a point on it.

The grafitti is on the wall.  Time to dump the boat anchor while you
can still get a decent price for it.  Don't count on Two-Tongue Jack
to ever support the ST in the US.  All he'll ever provide is crumbs to 
keep the peasants quiet.