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In article <438@gumby.UUCP> foust@gumby.UUCP writes:
>Has everyone seen the latest ad from Atari on the back of the latest 
>(Sept. 9) Infoworld?
> [...]
>The ad has pictures of a Mac, an AT, and an Amiga (not a picture, a 
>sketch in blueprint blue) across the top.  The ad says "There's only 
>one word for these prices: Rip-off."
> [...]
>		Atari ST	IBM AT		Mac	Amiga
>Price		799		4675		2795	1795
> [...]
>color		640x200		640x200		None	640x200***

I realize it's only a $200 difference, but I think it's awfully slimy to 
quote the monochrome price and brag about color...

Personally, I'm amazed they would even release a color display with
such a strange ratio of vertical to horizontal resolution, never mind
feature it in the ads.  I mean, the document icons are so tall and
skinny that they look more like drinking glasses than pieces of paper,
and the text looks like it's all Courier Ultra Condensed.  Ick.  One of
the hallmarks of Xerox Star (now called "Macintosh") user interface
technology is the square-pixel-ratio bitmap.  Hasn't anyone learned
that it takes more than little pictures to make an interface easy to
use?

David D. Levine       (...decvax!tektronix!teklds!davidl)    [UUCP]
                      (teklds!davidl.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA/CSNET]