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In article <12370@umd5.umd.edu> adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:
>In article <1992Apr4.151212.8500@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>  
>jreiss@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Joseph W Reiss) writes:
>> 
[Rumors deleted]
>
>Yeah right.  That would be like SUN signing up with Sinclair to port  
>Openlook to the ZX81 series.  Hahahaah.

Well, I wouldn't go that far--a brief Atari history: The ST was the first
inexpensive 1 Meg computer you could get. It came with a *high resolution
monochrome* monitor. (Later), Atari produced a *very cheap* Laser printer,
that was *driven by the computer*. You could get an inexpensive C compiler
that could be used to write to a window GUI (GEM sucks, but there was later
a third party shell that allowed you to "dock icons" and use a print manager)
and Un*x like shell (Mark Williams), and Mac emulation that was faster than
a Mac (Dave Small). Because of this, Atari ST was a big seller in the
*overseas* market, particularly *Germany*. 

Seems to me little editing would be required to make this a press release
for our favorite computer. Unfortunately, Atari suffered from poor
management and bad marketing (I better stop, I just broke into a cold sweat:-)

Anyway ST->NeXT seemed like a natural transition for me.

(Please, no flame wars, I'd hate to come back and write how great NeXT is.)


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