Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm!ndsuvm1!mtus5!splite From: SPLITE@MTUS5.BITNET (Steve Plite) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Amiga Software by Atari!! Message-ID: <90007.001031SPLITE@MTUS5.BITNET> Date: 7 Jan 90 05:10:31 GMT References: <89122504041857@masnet.uucp> <2360@sactoh0.UUCP> <90004.202106IMS103@PSUVM.BITNET> <90005.145418SPLITE@MTUS5.BITNET> <25A69DED.29057@paris.ics.uci.edu> Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ. Lines: 20 In article <25A69DED.29057@paris.ics.uci.edu>, jvance@ics.uci.edu (Joachim Patrick Vance) says: > Developing software ports for other computers seems like a pretty cheap >way of getting some extra profit to spend on supporting their current line >and developing new products (if that's how they use the money). > If they can make some quick cash from it, maybe we'll even see the TT >sooner. (Long shot, I know.) > Yeah, that would be great; but I'm beginning to wonder what, short of divine intervention, would give us the TT anytime soon... :-) Unfortunately, given Atari's past methods, it seems to me that their "soft- ware arm" would be spun off from the main company to make its own money. Any profits would probably stay inside that division, rather than being used for ST/TT development. I'm not a business expert, and don't know the straight poop about Atari's organization, so I could be dead wrong. That's just how it looks to this layman. Would anyone in the know care to comment? Hopefully we won't be seeing any Atari U.K.-type flames about the New Atari- soft... (}~: Steve Plite I disclaim that I have any opinions.