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   NM Sees to Air Raid   
   Re: short history of Sega Dreamcast's bi   
   30 Dec 06 10:14:42   
   
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   From: netmail@netboard.pjci.net   
      
   Maybe it's just me, but this guy reds like Sony fan-boy.   
   =======================================   
   Air Raid wrote:   
   >  Dreamcast is a system born out of Sega's darkest hour, a do-or-die   
   > machine which will decide whether the company stays in the hardware   
   > business. Its precursor, the 32bit Sega Saturn, had been wi   
   > 1994 launch was too proceed. Instead, Sega added yet another processor   
   > to an already over-complicated design. In terms of raw power, the new   
   > The Saturn debacle would cost the jobs of Sega's American and Japanese   
   > bosses, beside reducing its US empire to a ruin running up losses of   
   > $167 million in 1997. For any replacement machine the lessons were   
   > clear: a single format, complete user-friendliness for developers and   
   > a new brand -- so low had sunk the once mighty Sega name.   
   >   
      
   > Written By: Stuart Wynne   
   >   
   > http://www.tinyurl.com/c5rk7   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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