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In article <852@atari.UUCP>, dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer) writes:
> In article <5441@utcsri.UUCP>, juancho@utcsri.UUCP (John Buchanan) writes:
> > 	-There can only be 20 files open in the whole system at one time.
> > 
> > 	-A compile requires 6 files to be open at the same time.
> > 
> > 	... EXCESS VERBAGE DELETED ...
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> > 	*  These opinions are mine but after atari reads them   *
> > 	*  they will probably start climing that they are theirs*
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> 
> Give it a rest.
> 
> None of the Tramiels read usenet, so you are wasting your time
> bashing seven or eight rather over-worked software engineers.
> 

My, My, have we finally hit a living nerve here???  It's been so long since
*ANYONE* from Atari responded here with much more than rumors and the ever
expanding list of vaporware and empty promises...

But seriously, folks, didn't you enjoy the new product announcement.  It
probably would be more appropriate if the release date was changed to
"by Christmas", just in time to overhang the market...

*** FLAME ON *** (maybe I should have done this a few lines sooner..)

As one of the original ST owners (yes, my 520ST was built prior to 12/85),
I am really *sick and tired* of the overwhelming rash of new product
announcements that seem to come from Atari every time some other company
plans to announce a similar product (you folks never really believed that
the Atari PC existed, do you?? -- If you did, I have some swamp land to
sell, just give me a call...).  Atari announced their PC to eclipse the
announcement of the Amstrad PC, and amazingly enough, no one has seen it
since.  Our ST club, of which I happen to be the current president (oh well,
some of us just have no common sense...) had an Atari show here in Denver
just after the infamous PC announcement --- Did we see it??? No, because it
is a figment of "seven or eight rather over-worked software engineers"
(sorry Landon, but those are your words, not mine).  When we asked Neil where
it was, we got something like 'there is a show in Europe, and it is more
important that it was there'. (e.g. we only have one, and it doesn't really
work, and we can hide that fact at a European show much easier than we
could here at a computer fair where people could actually put their hands
on it - Yuk!).

Need I go on with more examples:
	1) How about the CD-ROM... Haven't heard about that one since
	   last Christmas...
	2) The Laser printer... Just "any time now"...
	3) The Blitter... My 520ST should last so long...
	   etc, etc...

Yes, it is sour grapes, because I believed in Atari and what they promised
for the future.  I believed them when the 8-bit line was around (remember
the 1450XL?).  Yes, that was a different Atari (the names change, but the
customer support remains the same - or goes downhill fast).

Guess its time for me to "give it a rest" and decide how much money I'll
be asking for my ST....

*** FLAME OFF ***

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				Myron Drapal
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