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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari 030 box (giggle)
Message-ID: <1825@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 88 02:30:19 GMT
References: <679UD140469@NDSUVM1> <22782@bbn.COM>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <22782@bbn.COM>, wbe@bbn.com (Winston B Edmond) writes:
> Actually, I've seen references to this machine in several other places
> (newspapers, magazines) before seeing it today in Infoworld.  In fact, less
You would have to have been oblivious to not have known that Atari was
targeting the Unix market...the rumors over the past year have been thick...

> 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?

No doubt they will be able to do so....the *real* questions are of what
*quality* will the machines be?  Since I *just* bought a Sun and didn't
bother to wait for their machine...you get a feel what I think of Atari's
ability to deliver quality hardware.  Somehow having gone through the entire
GEM/TOS OS mess (40 folder limits,etc), blitter scarcities (for all i
know they aren't available), disk problems, power supply problems why would
i want to repeat the experience? (I would have to be a complete fool). Don't
get me wrong, the Atari ST is a great terminal.  The real question is what
type of machine will it be?  I can only go by history.

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