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From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Explorer & TT
Message-ID: <668@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 89 15:43:55 GMT
References: <664@forty2.UUCP> <1413@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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In article <1413@atari.UUCP> good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good) writes:
>in article <664@forty2.UUCP>, poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) says:
>> 
.......
>>  (about the TT)  :
>> ....
>>>> (or something like that) part. Does this mean that Atari has actually
>>>> commited themselves to building it (and will release it's specs)?
>> ....
.....
>Aw....come on now Simon! At Hannover earlier this month we had an 030 in
>"developer" skins running a modified (but not optimized) TOS 1.4 for the
>whole duration. We are VERY committed to the product. We are NOT committed
>to rushing a product to market before we are satisfied that it is a solid
>and reliable design and satisfies our perception of market need. ...

This is just what I meant, not that Atari is not working on the TT, just that
it hasn't reach the point where it is very unlikely to be axed  (a lot of 
people remember the infamous MS-DOS emulator that was actually shown to the 
public at various exhibitons before it died a sudden death (this was before 
your time if I remember correctly)), I would think that distribution of 
`developer' machines marks the point where we can have some confidence in a 
machine actually making it to the market (and what I would call `commited').
This is naturally not an Atari specific problem and should not be thought
of as Atari bashing (I'm just a professional sceptic :-)).




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