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From: gp@ohsu-hcx.UUCP (glen plam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: This "Dying ST" nonsense
Summary: go get em guy's
Message-ID: <88@ohsu-hcx.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 88 03:50:07 GMT
References: <8809061721.AA27884@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <379@bdt.UUCP> <1364@percival.UUCP>
Reply-To: gp@ohsu-hcx.UUCP (glen plam)
Organization: Research Computing Center, Oregon Health Sciences University
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In article <1364@percival.UUCP> actor@percival.UUCP (Clif Swinford) writes:
>I don't know where this "The ST is a dying computer" bull is coming from,

I think it's coming from Apple and places like that.  I'm sure that they
would like the world to believe that the ST is dying and or died.  I
don't see that at all.
 
>David Beckemeyer claims that ST sales are now only 20% of BDT's business.
>I submit that that's because, powerful as they are, BDT's products are a 
>pain in the gluteus maximus to use.
 I agree.  David has written a good set of programs but I think he is ahead
of the ST group.  The other point is so what.  I have look at his stuff and
I don't think it meets my needs.  DBT products do not have a lock on the ST
world so they do not represent the state of Atari.

>Atari has found their market. The great silent majority. The same folks
>who voted for Reagan, read The Enquirer, and made The Gong Show a hit.

Now this makes me mad.  I read the Oregonian, watch the Love Connection 
and voted for Mickey Mouse.  (I think he won)


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