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- From: gordonf@monashee.sfu.ca (Gordon Farrell)
- Subject: Re: Last time on this one
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.215807.17246@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <5JAN93.09425752@cc4.crl.aecl.ca> <1ich3hINN9il@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:58:07 GMT
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- In article <1ich3hINN9il@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys) writes:
- >
- >You are right there, Darek is not level headed when it comes to Atari.
- >
- >He HATES Atari. I once spoke with him at an Atari show and the only
- >reason he was there was to convert Atari users to clones.
-
- I think I can shed some light on why Darek hates Atari so much.
-
- A couple of months ago, after some angry posts here from Darek, I asked
- what Atari had done to him. In an e-mail reply (which I will NOT post :-) ),
- he explained that the problem dated back to the days when he was working
- in the XFORMER 8-bit emulator. Atari refused to let him sell it with the
- BIOS chips (I believe he said they wouldn't sell the chips to him in the
- first place). Darek was less than pleased with this action, and thus began
- his personal vendetta against Atari Corp.
-
- While I think that Darek has over-reacted a bit to this action by Atari,
- (Dave Small's relations with Apple seem much better Darek and Atari's)
- I accept the fact that he feels that Atari did him wrong, and nothing
- any of us say is going to change that.
-
- ________________________________________________________________________________
- Gordon Farrell |e-mail:gfarrell@cs.sfu.ca |"Shee, you guys are so unhip
- | gordonf@sfu.ca | it's a wonder your bums
- Simon Fraser University | | don't fall off."
- Burnaby, B.C., Canada | | -Zaphod Beeblebrox
-