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From: powers@devcim.dec.com (Bill Powers HLO1-1/T05 DTN 225-7094)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: News blurb on Computer Chronicles
Message-ID: <8807191916.AA09230@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 19 Jul 88 21:57:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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*Warning* Atari bashing ahead

> Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
> Path: decwrl!labrea!agate!pasteur!ames!necntc!linus!alliant!rosenkra
> Subject: Re: Idris??
> Posted: 18 Jul 88 11:08:04 GMT
> Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA
>  
>  
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> i just say a news blurb on the PBS tv show "computer chronicles" saying
> (can u guess???) atari has delayed it's [fabled] transputer and unix
> box...
> 
> BTW: has atari ever shipped any CD thingies yet?
> 
> -bill

   Gee anybody who has been involved with the ST probably could have
told you that was gonna happen.  Doesn't it make you wonder how they
ever managed to design build and ship the original ST in the short
time that they supposedly did!  ;^)
   I know I can't wait to replace the OS with minix, and forget about
atari and all their blowing off at the mouth.  If you need convincing
that atari doesn't support the machine, go read the preliminary review
done by Byte magazine of the 1040.  I believe it was the March issue 
of 1986.  Especially note the interview with their engineer Shirav
Shivji (sp??), and all the stuff they were gonna have that has never
shown it's face.  I bought my machine based on that article, instead
of an Amiga, and it is one of the biggest mistakes I ever made.

Bill Powers

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