Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ames-vmsb.arpa!nep.pgelhausen From: nep.pgelhausen@AMES-VMSB.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: --- BYTE & the ST --- Message-ID: <8509172204.AA04363@UCB-VAX.ARPA> Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 15:20:00 EDT Article-I.D.: UCB-VAX.8509172204.AA04363 Posted: Mon Sep 16 15:20:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 04:59:55 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Reply-To: nep.pgelhausen@ames-vmsb.ARPA Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 27 From what I understand, the new Atari has been carrying on the old Commodore tradition of being relatively unfriendly to the press & software developers (note high price on the pre-release developement kit....it required a major investment from people who didn't know how tha merket was going to go). BYTE gets information sent to it more than it goes looking for it.....they get more than enough info that way that they don't HAVE to go looking...they have more than they can handle as it is (note the 3-4 month lag time). If Atari sent them a machine, they would review/preview it....if they (Atari) DON'T send a machine for review, the review will have to wait until BYTE has a bit of slack in the material available to it.....don't blame BYTE for Atari's PR faults. -Richard Hartman max.hartman@ames-vmsb (P.S.: I am a definate Atari fan, however I think Tramiel is making som misteaks about publicity here....I think he is deliberately ignoring magazines, except for the ones that order the developement kit themselves (Analog Computing did that). He needs to go out & VOLUNTEER information, and he doesn't like doing that. -rmh ) ------