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

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From: John Henders
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:43
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In <BzDEr6.JC@news.cso.uiuc.edu> wmagro@uiuc.edu (William Magro) writes:
>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.

>  I think you missed his point.  He was not criticizing you, but rather  
>Atari for picking an inappropriate audience for you presentation. 

	That's the way I read it too, Dave. I think you may be getting a bit
oversensitive here. However, I guess that it would be difficult for
Atari to find too many experienced ST game programmers left in the US,
and it's dubious they'd fly one in from Europe where they still exist.

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