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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: WHAT ATARI NEEDS TO DO...
Message-ID: <199@obie.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 88 07:08:04 GMT
References: <209@bdt.UUCP> <115@avsd.UUCP> <4699@cup.portal.com> <2892@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
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Summary: WP Corp?  CAREFUL!!

In article <4699@cup.portal.com>, Dave_Ninjajr_Flory@cup.portal.com writes:
| The pullout rumor is only about 5 weeks old and WP put
| out the word in no uncertain terms that it wasn't going to happen. I never
| cease to me surprised and how some folks will seize on a rumor to support
| something they want to believe and pass it on as tho' it were true, without
| any apparent effort to check on the validity. 

In article <2892@ihlpe.ATT.COM>, kimes@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes) writes:
> This 'rumor' came from WP Corp. itself.  They reversed themselves and
> then went on a CompuServe conference and made it sound like they never
> said it, but several people swear that they were told by WP Corp that
> they were dropping Atari ST support and pulling the product.

I'd be careful about what you hear about/from Word Perfect Corp. for a
little while.  There has been a persistent rumor that WP is pulling
out... OF UTAH!  Yes, folks, they are moving out from behind the Zion
curtain to the Silicon Prarie in Texas.  Or so the rumors say.

Perhaps the people above misinterpreted what WP was `pulling out of.'
This rumor makes more sense; another branch of my company is doing the
same thing.
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