Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!unisoft!gethen!bdt!david From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: (a) The Right to Flame & (b) WHAT ATARI NEEDS TO DO... Message-ID: <306@bdt.UUCP> Date: 29 Apr 88 04:20:27 GMT References: <203@eutrc3.UUCP> <1615@alliant.Alliant.COM> <1043@atari.UUCP> <303@bdt.UUCP> <27969@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA Lines: 47 Keywords: LENGTH! Sorry, but I can't take this one sitting still... In article <27969@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> wallman-george@CS.YALE.EDU (Natuerlich!) writes: >(a)>Well Mr Roy J. Good, I'll flame Atari any time I want, facts or no >(a)>facts! [no :-)] Who are you to tell this net they need FACTS to flame? >(a> > >(b)> [Stuff about the undesirability of the ST deleted] > >(a) >Dave your are getting bitter and rather tiresome. I too >am the not-so-proud owner of an ST, but believe me I can still >control myself. I concur with you on one thing "Screw those ':-)s'" >Either you mean it and write it, or you don't and don't. You're right. And I'm glad I'm getting tiresome. I'm not gonna stop becuase of it either. Do you you think I'm going to let those %&^%#^ screw me, my wife, some of my friends, and even some people I don't like very much and let them get away with it!? No way. I think too many people are letting them get away with it. JT is still finding suckers! I want to help stop it. You only live once ... Now I see the light... >(b+a) >Atari isn't much but still about the only bet I have as a supplier >for a new computer. Specs : '30 or '386 power palenty of pixels >and colors, UNIX or possibly ( zzz ) OS/2. Affordable! > > [ lot's of relevent stuff about computers deleted ] All I will say is that I still argue that the ATARI ISN'T CHEAPER. And with the big names (e.g. Sun, AT&T, IBM, DEC, and little Apple) reducing their prices all the time, I'll make book on the fact that the Atari will never be cheaper. Certainly not in the long run, when you have to throw out your Atari dinosaur and buy a "real" computer. >So please please keep those suckers at Atari alive, don't flame them >to a crisp. While a tall platform and a short rope sounds attractive at times, I've never advocated the practice in any place where Mr T. personnel could have possibly placed a sophisticated shivji masterpiece listening device. -- David Beckemeyer | "Yuh gotta treat people jes' like yuh Beckemeyer Development Tools | do mules. Don't try to drive 'em. Jes' 478 Santa Clara Ave, Oakland, CA 94610 | leave the gate open a mite an' let 'em UUCP: ...!ihnp4!hoptoad!bdt!david | bust in!"