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- From: smiller@bcarh838.bnr.ca (Scott Miller)
- Subject: Atari Market
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.153129.3797@bnr.ca>
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- References: <C0pGL9.B9E@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1itb88INN4pn@life.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan12.152714.3629@bnr.ca>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:31:29 GMT
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- In article <1itb88INN4pn@life.ai.mit.edu>, dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:
- |> ... If you think I'M hard on your
- |> Party Line, you should listen to what the Real World is saying.)
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- This is the scary part. The real world is saying NOTHING. Nobody cares, because
- the Atari market is almost flatlined,
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- A couple of months ago, I was ready to go out and plunk my money down on a Falcon.
- Instead of buying an SC1435, (maybe) a MegaSTE and Flight of the Intruder, I decided
- to sit tight. But now, because of the Falcon/MultiTOS delays, the price/performance
- ratio, and the software availability, I would say it's 50/50 between F030 and a 486.
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- I'm in no hurry anymore. I will wait and see. But if there is a manufacturing
- delay, they had better be taking advantage of it. (For the MegaSTE case, Multitos
- and software)
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- Atari is on the very edge of blowing themselves out of the computer market,
- forever. If they successfully kill of the ST user base, that's it. This is
- not 1985, when PC's were expensive, and Macs and Amigas were also new.
- (Though they might be able to hang on in video game consoles)
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