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Article #31763Re: WHAT ATARI NEEDS TO DO...
From: Thomas Wolf
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 1988 07:21
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 1988 07:21
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In article <92@avsd.UUCP> govett@avsd.UUCP (David Govett) writes:
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>> The Atari User community has to understand that it is impossible to stay
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>> in business by selling a complicated, quality program for less then $200.
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> --> Are you serious? Tell that to Borland.
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Yeah, tell that to Borland -- I don't seem to recall seeing any Borland
titles on Atari shelves lately (or ever). The intent of the statement was pro-
bably that it is difficult for a s/w developer to stay in business selling a
quality program (ie. that he spent ALOT of time on), support it, AND sell
it for less than $200 IFF the user-base is as small as the Atari's. Borland
clearly does NOT cater to the Atari user but to the IBM PC market -- That's
why they're able to sell their product so cheaply.
Tom Wolf
Tom Wolf
ARPA (I think): tw@cscosl.ncsu.edu
or wolf@csclea.ncsu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!gatech!ncsuvx!csclea!wolf From: wolf@csclea.ncsu.edu (Thomas Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: WHAT ATARI NEEDS TO DO... Message-ID: <1667@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 8 Apr 88 07:21:52 GMT References: <166leigh@byuvax.bitnet> <2059@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <81@avsd.UUCP> <48536@sun.uucp> <92@avsd.UUCP> Sender: nntp@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu Reply-To: wolf@csclea.UUCP (Thomas Wolf) Organization: Computer Science , NCSU, Raleigh NC Lines: 24