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From: freak@ihlpa.UUCP (c e malloy)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: split group to 800/ST groups?
Message-ID: <861@ihlpa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 09:12:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 09:12:53 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 06:06:29 EST
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> In article <170@pluto.UUCP> warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein) writes:
> >I own an Atari 800.  I don't own an ST.  I see one message in dozens in
> >this group which I want to read.  Why don't we have net.micro.ST
> >and net.micro.atari800?  (or anything else that says it, owners of 400s,
> >600s and 1200s shouldn't feel excluded.)
> 
> As much as I agree with the problem, I have to disagree with the suggestion.
> The 800 (et al) are as dead as lots of other machines with loyal followings,
> and the need for a newsgroup for new technical data, rumors, O.S. arguments,
> etc. is just not there.
> 
> Maybe we can all afford to upgrade some day ...

	I agree with the original posting.  I too have an Atari computer,
but have no intention of buying the new ST machine.  And I strongly
disagree with the last statement.  The ST machines are NOT repeat NOT
an upgrade from the 400/800/1200XL/600XL/800XL line of computers.  They
are not compatable, and there for are not an upgrade.  When we upgrade
the computers here, we don`t have to throw out all of the software that
we have.  In the worst case, it must be recompiled.  That is an upgrade.
If I "upgraded" to the ST line, I would have to throw out over 300 disks
of software.  There is no way that I am going to do that to support Jack
Traimel and his personal dreams of glory.

	Sorry about the flame, but I couldn't help myself.

From inside the Tesseract of
	Clancy Malloy
	(ihnp4!ihlpa!freak)

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