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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.)

This is the scary part.  The real world is saying NOTHING.  Nobody cares, because
the Atari market is almost flatlined,

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.

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)  

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)