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- From: kisaacso@nyx.cs.du.edu (Kevin "Zonker" Isaacson)
- Subject: I'm with Dave (was Re: A letter to Dave Bagget)t
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.101541.27640@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 10:15:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.191513.3742@nosc.mil>, healy@nosc.mil (Mike Healy) would have us believe:
- ]
- ] While still an ST supporter (I'd like to get a '40 Falcon if the beast ever is released),
- ^^
- ] I have noticed a lot of people have disappeared from this group over the past few years.
- ]
- ] Mike Healy
- ]
- ] healy@nosc.mil
- ]
-
- Your message makes the point that has put me off Atari for a long time now.
- There is NOBODY in the PC world who is saying "if the 586 (or whatever they are
- calling it) is released." Its not a worry. I've supported Atari since 1983
- when I bought my first Atari 400. They are great computers but I cannot spend
- the rest of my life wondering if there will be any support for my computer 12
- months from now. Granted, the Falcon looks like a great machine, but if it
- doesn't make it that's basically it for Atari. I don't want to sink $1000+
- into a computer when the chance of it being supported in a year is 50/50 at
- best. For that same $1000 I can buy a PC compatible which will be supported
- into the next century AT LEAST. The features and capabilities of the Falcon
- simply do not justify taking that sort of a gamble.
-
- ITS REALLY NOT THAT IMPRESSIVE!
-
- Nifty toys like the DSP are not going to grab the mass market and that is what
- Atari has got to do to stay in business. Sorry, but my next computer
- will be an Intel machine. Maybe then I can sleep at night.
-
-
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