Talk:Atari XEGS

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Predecessor is 7800? Considering that this is a 6502/ANTIC/GTIA/POKEY platform, shouldn't the 5200 (a prior 6502/ANTIC/GTIA/POKEY platform) be the predecessor? Just a thought. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.229.108.41 (talk) 19:32, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Are they talking about a technological predecessor or a market release predecessor? I don't know, but I would guess the latter. 5200 in 1982, 7800 in 1984, XEGS in 1987.— Smuckola (Email) (Talk) 20:44, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

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Redundancy in footnote quote.
Plainly they are. I'm highlighting here where the exact same wording is already in the quote without needing the over-edited and inserted version.

"The games division [..] saw the home computer division as a threat [..] If any of their new machines could expand into true computers, the reins would automatically be handed over [..] To the games division, this was a fate worse than death [so] they chose death. [..] If, in 1981, the next-generation game machine had been designed to be compatible with the Atari 400 and 800 microcomputers, Atari would not be in the state it is today. Instead, the 5200 game unit was launched. Internally, it was very nearly an Atari 800, and as such was a fabulous game machine. The notable exceptions were that all compatibility and expandability had been designed out [..] with an external keyboard and 800 compatibility, could have been transformed into a product superior to the famed Coleco Adam, way back in 1982."

Plainly it already states that the compatibility was intentionally designed out, and therefore stating the same thing again, with a heavily edited version, is unneeded. oknazevad (talk) 17:16, 27 September 2020 (UTC)