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Article #28506Re: Atari is DUMB?
From: Neil Harris
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1987 20:06
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1987 20:06
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In article <569@ihnet.ATT.COM>, bryan@ihnet.ATT.COM (b. k. delaney) writes:
> If Atari thinks it is going to sell the Mega ST at these High prices
> they are dead wrong. Also If atari thinks it can stop its dealers from
> discounting the megas they are VERY VERY VERY WRONG !!!
There's never been any intention of trying to stop dealers from discounting.
We expect dealers to be competitive.
> Also if the Laser printer will work only with Atari computers and don't
> support PostScript or use the HP Language, only a fool would buy
> one.
Since using the laser printer with GDOS gives much much much faster
throughput than Postscript, it looks like there are potentially many
customers out there. I wouldn't be surprised to see someone add Postscript
support to the laser printer before long, but it seems to work well without
it.
> Atari better support PostScript or be left in the dust by real
> printer companies!
Isn't this like saying that the ST ought to be MSDOS or be left in the dust?
We like to try better ways. Isn't Apple about to release a Quickdraw laser
printer? That seems to be the same thing we're doing...
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!imagen!atari!neil From: neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari is DUMB? Message-ID: <857@atari.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 16:06:55 EDT Article-I.D.: atari.857 Posted: Thu Oct 1 16:06:55 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Oct-87 03:49:14 EDT References: <569@ihnet.ATT.COM> Organization: Atari Corp/Mktg Lines: 32 Keywords: Stupid Prices