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From: covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NeXT announcement (was Re: Atari Workstation)
Summary: Amen!!
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Date: 26 Oct 88 16:06:36 GMT
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> The rumors of the '030 box are amusing, but unless they bought out
> SCO or something they will have a darn difficult time supporting it.
> Contemplating NeXT and Atari competing is downright humorous. But to
> be completely serious, Steve Jobs has no intention of selling his machines
> to university *students* which is what Atari would like to do, rather he
> sells them to the faculty. 
> 
> --Chuck McManis

I second Chuck's comments!! I worked at AT&T and helped design the AT&T 3B2 and
3B5 computers (running UNIX of course). and the man power that went into those
two computers is totally beyond any thing that Atari is capable of. In fact,
those 5 year old computers still have more horsepower then anything Atari is
likely to produce. I worked for a year on the hardware and software of the  3B2
and can't believe that Atari will be better then Jobs.

Oh well, maybe I will be wrong, because an Atari computer might be cheaper (in
all meanings of that word) then the NeXT computer.

richard (Long Live the 3B2) covert