 While disapproving of the use of an operating system closer to the 1200XL's than the 400 and 800's, and the "inadequate and frankly disappointing" documentation, "ANALOG" concluded that "our first impression ... is mixed but mostly optimistic".The magazine warned, however, that because of "Atari's sluggish marketing", unless existing customers persuaded others to buy the XL models, "we'll all end up marching to the beat of a drummer whose initials are IBM".Although Commodore emerged intact from the computer price wars, conflict inside Commodore soon led to Jack Tramiel's ousting in January 1984.