stekas@hou2g.UUCP (J.STEKAS) (05/07/85)
I think Jack Trameil (sp?) has been given a lot of undeserved credit for the ST line. Considering the short time between his purchase of Atari and the announcement of the ST line it's clear that most of the developement occured before he got on the scene. Whatever he has contributed has been on the business side. By dumping the 800XLs at Xmas time he made a lot of us very happy and raised some cash to make a go of the ST. But he has been unsuccessful at generating much interest in any of the software houses for developing stuff for the ST. If the ST has to wait as long as the Macintosh did for software it won't be long before the only Atari one can buy is a used one. He may be making the most of a bad situation, but he hasn't won the war yet. Jim
braun@drivax.UUCP (Karl Braun) (05/15/85)
> I think Jack Trameil (sp?) has been given a lot of undeserved > credit for the ST line. Considering the short time between his > purchase of Atari and the announcement of the ST line it's clear > that most of the developement occured before he got on the scene. > ... > Jim You are correct in assuming that Mr. Trameil has been given a lot of undeserved credit for the ST; but you are incorrect in assuming that the product was underway before he arrived. The people who deserve the credit are the Atari engineers who slaved away at the product to produce samples in the short time span given. -- kral ihnp4!-------- \ mot! ---------- \ ucbvax!unisoft! > drivax!braun ucscc!--------- / amdahl!------- /