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From: singer@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Matthew R. Singer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari 030 box (giggle)
Message-ID: <943@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Date: 30 Mar 88 16:38:14 GMT
References: <679UD140469@NDSUVM1> <22782@bbn.COM>
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
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Summary: Would you buy and Atari over a Sun at the same price?

In article <22782@bbn.COM>, wbe@bbn.com (Winston B Edmond) writes:
> 
> If Sun can make a Unix workstation with an Ethernet interface, VME slots,
> multiple RS-232 ports, a 1K * 1K resolution monochrome monitor, etc. (3/50)
> and make a profit when selling at 30% off the $5000 retail price ($3500), or
> make a (rumored) 386 machine with a color monitor for under $8000 retail, why
> shouldn't Atari be able to do something comparable in a similar price range?
>  -WBE


With regard to the paragraph above...

Are you saying that given a SUN and an Atari at the same price and
the same features, you would buy the Atari?  Do you honestly think
Atari has the resources to SUPPORT a Unix box the way Sun can????

I'm not sure anyone in the technical market could get their purchasing
departments to buy Atari. And even it they did, I bet they'd hide 
the nameplate to avoid being laughed out of a job.

I've never heard the saying "No one ever got fired for buying Atari"...

If Atari does bring out a Unix box, they better make it BINARY compatible
with some other make, because no one in their right mind would spend
alot porting to it.

Matt Singer