Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unisoft!gethen!bdt!david
From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari 030 box (giggle)
Message-ID: <203@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 88 23:52:18 GMT
References: <679UD140469@NDSUVM1> <22782@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA
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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


Right.  And I add: If I can get a Sun or Micro VAX etc. why buy an Atari for
the same price?  Oh yea, becuase they offer such great support!

By the way, does anybody remember, maybe two Years ago or so, when Atari
started all the 68020 rumors?  It was going to have...  And it will be
shipping in....   Uh. Huh.  Sure.
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