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From: mrd@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu (Michael R. DeCorte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari 030 box (giggle)
Message-ID: <677@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 88 08:48:23 GMT
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Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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In-reply-to: wbe@bbn.com's message of 30 Mar 88 00:10:59 GMT
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.2 of Thu Dec 10 1987 on sun.mcs.clarkson.edu (berkeley-unix)


  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

Simple, Atari has YET to produce ANYTHING that works!  I am not saying
that company X could not do it, but Atari has failed many, many times.
Also, Sun has made several computers under their belt.  It is quite
trivial to port bsd, or SV and as Atari can't even get a supid single
user, single taking O.S. to work, how are they going to get UNIX?  For
that matter that have yet to get the ST to just read a disk drive with
out crashing every now and then just for the fun of it. (I am of
course refering to the 40 folder limit which has yet to be FIXED).