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- From: wmagro@uiuc.edu (William Magro)
- Subject: Re: I am NOT making this up, OK? (was Re: Closed ... <ho hum>)
- References: <1gnve3INNhd9@life.ai.mit.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:09:05 GMT
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- In article <1gnve3INNhd9@life.ai.mit.edu> dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David
- Baggett) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec14.193731.1968@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu writes:
- >>I, on the other hand, wondered just what the hell David was doing
- talking to
- >>folks at Atari who had obviously never programmed on an ST in the first
- place.
- >>LYNX programmers ... for crying out loud.
- >
- >It's just *amazing* to me how you can twist everything around so that
- >it's not Atari's fault. We met with the group that was the Falcon
- >games development group. Many of them happened to have been Lynx
- >programmers. Any cluelessness on their part with respect to the Atari
- >computers was certainly beyond our control.
- >
- >Dave Baggett
-
- Dave,
- I think you missed his point. He was not criticizing you, but rather
- Atari for picking an inappropriate audience for you presentation. Atari
- should have had experienced _ST_ game programmers, who could better
- understand and judge the value of your GW system.
-
- --
- William Magro NeXTMail welcome
- wmagro@uiuc.edu
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