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- From: ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Atari
- Message-ID: <4242@wet.UUCP>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 17:07:59 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.182309.10852@pellns.alleg.edu>
- Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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- In article <1992Aug13.182309.10852@pellns.alleg.edu> heidelj@alleg.edu (Jason Heideloff) writes:
- >My biggest turnoff of Atari the company (by the way, I do own a Mega STe.)
- >is the fact that they wait too long. They wait too long to deliver any
- >new products, they wait too long to inform the public on much of anything
- >and it is an absolute killer. Quite frankly, I am surprised that they are
- >still in busines.
- >
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- In the past, Atari's been accused of producing vaporware, i.e. announcing
- products and taking too long to deliver. This time, they're not announcing
- them until they're almost ready to ship.
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- >supposed to be even faster. My question is, why would any company, I
- >don't care who it is, invest in technology which has surpassed and will
- >soon be taken over by something else. I would agree with them if they
- >shiped their computers with 68040, but I can't believe that they would
- >like to slow themselves (the company) down by installing yesterday's
- >technology. It just doesn't make sense.
-
- The Falcon is going to cost well under US$1000, have two hard drive interfaces
- (IDE and SCSI-II), 16Mhz 68030, 10+ MIPS DSP, LAN port, expandability to 14megs,
- Multitasking OS, processor direct slots, great graphics, and you're complaining
- because it's old technology?! What other computer has what the Falcon
- has for under $1000?
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