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     I have been waiting almost 8 months for this.  Regarding 
<cs2532aa@unm-cvax.UUCP>, dated 19-Jan-85, by Ernie Longmire, 
entitled Crismire Predicts: Atari.  Here's an open letter that
I trust will get back to Crismire somehow.

     Ernie, perhaps I'm being a bit premature, but I wonder if you 
could keep an eye on this "Crismire" friend of yours.  Just in case 
he decides to skip the country, that is!  There are a number of 
"Jack" fans out here just dying to see him eat that IBM PC-AT.  We 
could probably find a number of dealers that would love to sell him 
one for that purpose too.  

     I have just received a short extra issue of DTACK Grounded.  
Our friend Felgercarb has just purchased a Jackintosh with Color 
Monitor over the counter at his local Computerland for $995, and is 
sending his $300 for a developer's kit to Atari.  He may yet find a 
mass market for HALGOL.  There is no BASIC yet for the Jacki.

     In peeking under GEM, he finds that TOS (Tramiel's Operating 
System) is CPM/68K-like.  We wonder, could it be that most 
purchasers will opt to spend an extra $200 for the color monitor, 
and could it be that a reasonable fraction will ditch the GEM 
interface?  Felgercarb says that 20 mouse operations and 8 disk 
swaps are needed to copy a disk (single drive, single side).  "THIS 
IS MORE USER-FRIENDLY THAN "COPYAB" FOLLOWED BY A COUPLE OF "Y" 
RESPONSES TO PROMPTS?"  

     Is this the next hacker's machine?

     Twenty-seven days and counting, Crismire!

                                Regards,



                                Victor R. Frank, Editor
                                68796 Hackers Newsletter