hogan@rosevax.UUCP (Andy Hogan) (05/01/85)
Has anyone heard any new, juicy rumors about the Commodore
and/or Atari Mac-killers? There was quite a flurry of information
in late Feb. and early March, but I've heard almost nothing since.
I know DRI has demonstrated GEM on certain (blue) PCs.
I peeked at net.micro.atari, and the Atari 130 is apparently out,
but no one has actually *seen* the GEM based machine (although one
mail-order house was taking orders....hmmmmm.) There was also a
rumor/question concerning Atari possibly cancelling "some of their
new products." The .68k and .cbm micro newsgroups had no info.
My personal skepticism with regards to the price/performance
claims for these machines is being reinforced by their failure to
materialize. What's the latest? Anybody know?
Andy Hogan Rosemount, Inc. Mpls, MN
ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!rosevax!hogan jeff@mit-eddie.UUCP (Jeff Mattson) (05/04/85)
The folks from Atari ST visited a general meeting of the Boston Computer Society several weeks ago. They didn't have any software with them but said they had just "forgotten" to or didn't have enough time to get any. All they showed was the GEM interface and their version of the finder. The guy speaking for Atari said that a lot of software was being developed, though, and that several development systems of the ST had been delivered that day. Just a few minutes ago, I heard on the Computer Chronicles that Atari showed off its ST at a German trade show recently and STILL didn't have any software. However, at the BCS meeting, there was another speaker from a software house who said that they were developing software for computers running the GEM system. People aren't developing fast enough, I suppose. By the way, the guy who spoke for Atari at BCS was very rude. He put down the Mac every opportunity he had and lied a couple of times about it, saying such things as Apple's finder MUST be on a disk or the disk won't boot, that you MUST go back to the finder in between applications, etc. He then cut off anyone who tried to correct him, saying he wasn't there to talk about the Mac. Not very good behaviour, considering that almost half of the people there were from the Mac subgroup of the BCS. ---------------------------------------- Don't dream it; BE IT! ---------------------------------------- Jeff Mattson Jeff@MIT-Eddie 497-3980 (work) 424-7226 (home) 24 Westland Ave. #10 Boston, MA 02115