Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!silver!kclenden
From: kclenden@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Kevin Clendenien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Double Click's New MultiPort card
Keywords: double click, serial io, atari st     The June/July issue of ST EXPRESS magazine has an ad from Double
Message-ID: <24515@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 89 05:50:07 GMT
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In article <44f290b1.14a1f@gtephx.UUCP> covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:
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>	The 'whining' thing brings up another complaint of mine. Why is it
>that ST owners should be satisfied with a less then perfect product, or with
>a product with known defiencies, just because a company was willing to market it
>to us in the first place? I mean, don't we desire the right to be critical of
>ST products, or should we simply bless any software or hardware product that
>a company is willing to market, just because they were nice enough to market
>it?? Awwggg!!
>
>Richard (the 'whiner') Covert

Richard, I thought your request was reasonable.  What I considered 
unreasonable was your response to DC Software's response to your request.
You asked for something, and they said that they would provide it for
you, but you said, "Not good enough!  I want it to have been designed
that way from the beginning."  I do not think that DC Software has
ignored a large portion of the RS-232 market, as you claim.  I have
no idea how much it would have cost them to have designed their board
your way from the beginning, but they chose not to because (in part,
at least) they felt that their current design would cover the majority of
the market.  As far as accepting imperfect products, I don't think 
that is applicable in this case.  DC Software Multiport Board does
exaclty what it was designed to do, and it does it perfectly.
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Kevin B. Clendenien                       kclenden@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
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