MEGGIN@vm.epas.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) (10/19/89)
Atari did try to market to the USSR, from what I've heard. The problem was that GDOS was not really ready yet, and all of the cyrillic stuff was a weak hack. I understand that a Danish/British computer called Thor, which does work well with cyrillic, has taken a lot of the USSR market. David Megginson MEGGIN@VM.epas.utoronto.ca
peterii@nadia.UUCP (Peter Bechtold) (10/27/89)
In article <89Oct19.093236edt.57352@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> MEGGIN@vm.epas.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes: >Atari did try to market to the USSR, from what I've heard. The problem >was that GDOS was not really ready yet, and all of the cyrillic stuff >was a weak hack. I can't imagine that the cyrillic stuff was a problem. I *NEVER* saw any computer in the USSR producing *ANY* cyrillic signs neither on the screen nor on the printer ... >(...) > I understand that a Danish/British computer called >Thor, which does work well with cyrillic, has taken a lot of the USSR >market. There is one great problem in the USSR: They don't have something what is similar to our market in the capitalistic western world. If somebody needs a computer, he can't buy it. Only if the plan allows someone to buy something, he is able to do so. But he can't buy the machine what is cheap *NOW*, he has to buy the machine what was cheap upto 5 years ago. But what was a good deal 5 years ago ??? But that's just one aspect ... Another one is that Russia don't have the money to buy computers like the ST. They need higher-performance machines (but, unfortunately, they aren't able to get these, they could only get the ones they don't want, say ATARI ST ...) Funny, but true ! > David Megginson MEGGIN@VM.epas.utoronto.ca pii -- # Peter Bechtold # Th.-Mann-Str.91 # D 7000 Stuttgart 30 # West Germany # # voice: +49 711 813240 # data: N/A # telex: (0402) 6101056 mac lu # # ..!uunet!unido!nadia!peterii # peterii@nadia.UUCP #