Re: I am NOT making this up, OK? (was Re: Closed ... <ho hum>)

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From: William Magro
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:09

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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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