rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung) (03/21/88)
Scary thought time:
Somebody just told me that Atari has "officially" announced that they will
not support the 8-bit line after 1988 is over.
Can anyone confirm/deny this? The speaker is not known for Atari bashing or
practical jokes, but nobody else I know has heard of this...
--R.J.
B-)
P.S. I wonder if this is how Vic-20 owners felt when their machine got
axed...
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Just because it's 8-bits doesn't make it obsolete. ==== == ==== jwt@atari.UUCP (Jim Tittsler) (03/22/88)
In article <530@nunki.usc.edu>, rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung) writes: > > Somebody just told me that Atari has "officially" announced that they will > not support the 8-bit line after 1988 is over. This is clearly NOT true. Actually, thanks at least in part to the XE Game System, the 8-bit line is doing quite nicely, thank you. We are in fact experiencing an upswing in interest, and therefore development, in the 8-bit machines. Jim Tittsler, Atari Corporation
njd@ihlpm.ATT.COM (DiMasi) (03/23/88)
> ... > Somebody just told me that Atari has "officially" announced that they will > not support the 8-bit line after 1988 is over. > > Can anyone confirm/deny this? The speaker is not known for Atari bashing or > practical jokes, but nobody else I know has heard of this... Careful - that probably depends on what you mean by "support." I have read in a recent article in ANALOG (4/88 issue, by Matt Ratcliff, the 8-bit expert) that Atari seems to want to stop producing any more NEW UPGRADES (i.e, machines with more RAM than the 130XE) for the 8- bits. I have seen nothing (and I read the messages on Delphi regularly, where the ANALOG magazine editors and even [occasionally] Neil Harris of Atari Inc. hold forth) that indicates that Atari has any plans to stop making or "supporting" the 8-bits. If you call the lack of new h/w upgrades for the machines a lack of support, well, that's another way of looking at it. Nick DiMasi Uni'q Digital Technologies (Fox Valley Software subsidiary; ^ working as a contractor at AT&T Bell Labs in Naperville, IL) ( | this is an accent mark, supposed to replace the dot over the 'i')
c60b-at@buddy.Berkeley.EDU (John Kawakami -0^0-) (03/24/88)
In article <1022@atari.UUCP> jwt@atari.UUCP (Jim Tittsler) writes: > >Actually, thanks at least in part to the XE Game System, the 8-bit line is >doing quite nicely, thank you. We are in fact experiencing an upswing in >interest, and therefore development, in the 8-bit machines. > >Jim Tittsler, Atari Corporation Phew! that's good. What about some support then??? 1. software for the xep-80. perhaps express-80 should be bundled to get people to buy the atari modem. besides, I want to know I can get software for it before I go buy it. 2. get express-80 developed. or maybe kermit-80 3. lower prices. I saw 800xl prices jump from $90 to $150 just to 'keep up' with the XEGS. John Kawakami / c60b-at@buddy.berkeley.edu It wouldn't take me long /cc-28@cory.berkeley.edu To tell you how to find it / ----* -O^O-