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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NeXT announcement (was Re: Atari Workstation)
Summary: You misquoted me, dammit!
Message-ID: <251@obie.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 88 06:32:09 GMT
References: <1449@wayback.UUCP> <6528@pyr.gatech.EDU> <10019@cup.portal.com> <9345@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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In article <234@obie.UUCP> I DID NOT write:
> Whoa, wait a minute here!  Who said anything about the "Atari
> WorkStation" or "ATW" being a transputer machine?
		   ^^^
In article <9345@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, jafischer@spurge.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer) writes:
| 	Atari did.  The ATW is the new name for the Abaq (apparently
| some European company owned rights to the name).

Why did you change "AWS" in my original posting to "ATW"?  Why are you
mis-quoting me?  Don't do this!!!!!!!

> 	And, as has already been remarked upon, this Cringely fellow's
> comments must be taken with liberally-applied grains of salt.  Let's
> wait and see what Atari really announces.  And then let's wait and see
> what they actually _release_, which is often quite a different matter.

Yah, a 10-pound grain of salt, usually.  It is obvious to anyone who
knows much about Unix that V.3 on a 1-meg machine is going to be
pathetic (even if they do manage to get it out).  Have you looked at the
price of RAM chips lately?  If you buy the machine for 2K, you'll need
another 3 meg of memory (about $1000) and 60-80 meg of disk space
($1000-$1500, for reasonable speeds) to make it useful.  Still, $4500
wouldn't be a bad price for a nice little '030 machine.  Like you say,
wait and see if it materializes.
-- 
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

"How come he didn't put `I think' at the end of it?" - James P. Hogan