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(a)>Well Mr Roy J. Good, I'll flame Atari any time I want, facts or no
(a)>facts!   [no :-)]  Who are you to tell this net they need FACTS to flame?
(a>

(b)> [Stuff about the undesirability of the ST deleted]

(a)
Dave your are getting bitter and rather tiresome. I too
am the not-so-proud owner of an ST, but believe me I can still 
control myself. I concur with you on one thing "Screw those ':-)s'"
Either you mean it and write it, or you don't and don't.


(b+a)
Atari isn't much but still about the only bet I have as a supplier
for a new computer. Specs : '30 or '386 power  palenty of pixels
and colors, UNIX or possibly ( zzz ) OS/2. Affordable!

------------------------ The "serious" machines -----------------------

Apple     - Hell I don't have that kind of money. It's still gonna be
            some sort of Mac then I believe. Natuerlich! just says no.
            
IBM/Clone - I wan't a computer not a desktop calculator! Case dismissed.
            To that day I have used Turbo-C with plenty of pleasure on
            an AT but else, the machine is just no fun. Its an INTEL
            chip, the software is boring. 

-----------------------The not so serious machines --------------------

Commodore - Are there any people left there who can design a good
            machine ? Will Commodore/Braunschweig put out an
            Amiga 3000 with a 80368 and optional 68000 to run old
            Amiga software (har har) ? We will see. Until now 
            prospects are bleak. [Flaming Amiga-amigos please Email]
            Dream : 68030 or RISC + UNIX + sexy graphics. If anyone
            will build it Amiga/Commodore will. Prediction : They wont.
            
Atari     - The Abaq w/o MMU and UNIX ? Har Har. Thats gonna be
            the Atari videogame for the 90's. The hardware
            upto the MMU is the right thing, but then... Prediction:
            Development discontinued... a workstation company buys
            INMOS. The Transputer will become a Megahit in the work-
            station business.
            The 68030 ? Quite possibly. Not that I am particularly 
            fond of yet another featureless Shivi-creation, but UNIX
            on top of it and I might be buying.

Oddballs -  Archimedes : nice CPU, the rest sounds like a loser.
				Sinclair ???   : I am not british.
				The big japanese unknown threat : Won't happen.
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For Natuerlich! the last thing he needs is a 
serious Atari going after the business market. That just raises
prices gives him a featureless machine (-Shivi- : "i think a sprite
for the mouse cursor, would really be a great idea" -Tramiel- :
"Sshhhh! It's a business machine, we can't put sprites in it")
and leaves me to buy : the Hyundai XL 11/c or some crap of that sort.
Natuerlich! probably needs Atari to keep on hacking in a pleasurable
environment through the 90s (I never started hacking on the ST).

So please please keep those suckers at Atari alive, don't flame them
to a crisp.

Natuerlich!
{ If this as usual doesn't make sense to some people. Feel free
  to let me know although I won't care }
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