Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!singer
From: singer@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Matthew R. Singer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari 030 box (giggle)
Message-ID: <945@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Date: 30 Mar 88 20:05:32 GMT
References: <679UD140469@NDSUVM1> <22782@bbn.COM> <943@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> <22817@bbn.COM>
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
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Summary: Atari 030

In article <22817@bbn.COM>, wbe@bbn.com (Winston B Edmond) writes:
> No, I was just saying that it was not unreasonable that Atari could build a
> Unix box intended to sell in that price range.  I, too, would pick Sun over
> Atari if they produced comparable products at comparable prices.  But, if
> Atari produced an '030 box for about 1/2 the cost of a comparable Sun box,
> because Atari wanted the home market and Sun was selling to businesses that
> were willing to pay for lots of support, then yes, $2500 or $5000 difference
> on the purchase of a personal computer would encourage me to consider the
> Atari machine.
>  -WBE


Yes, but knowing the quantity of updates TOS has received (and the
number of bugs/features it has) and knowing how often Unix gets updated... 

I hope Atari releases sources, because its the only way anything will
ever get fixed.