Re: Amiga Software by Atari!!

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From: Steve Plite
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1990 05:10

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In article <25A69DED.29057@paris.ics.uci.edu>, jvance@ics.uci.edu (Joachim
Patrick Vance) says:
>  Developing software ports for other computers seems like a pretty cheap
>way of getting some extra profit to spend on supporting their current line
>and developing new products (if that's how they use the money).
>  If they can make some quick cash from it, maybe we'll even see the TT
>sooner. (Long shot, I know.)
>
  Yeah, that would be great; but I'm beginning to wonder what, short of divine
intervention, would give us the TT anytime soon...  :-)
  Unfortunately, given Atari's past methods, it seems to me that their "soft-
ware arm" would be spun off from the main company to make its own money.  Any
profits would probably stay inside that division, rather than being used for
ST/TT development.  I'm not a business expert, and don't know the straight
poop about Atari's organization, so I could be dead wrong.  That's just
how it looks to this layman.  Would anyone in the know care to comment?
  Hopefully we won't be seeing any Atari U.K.-type flames about the New Atari-
soft...  (}~:

Steve Plite <splite@mtus5.bitnet>   I disclaim that I have any opinions.

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Subject: Re: Amiga Software by Atari!!
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