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Article #34702Re: NeXT announcement (was Re: Atari Workstation)
From: Jonathan A. Fischer
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1988 22:38
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1988 22:38
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In article <234@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes: >Whoa, wait a minute here! Who said anything about the "Atari >WorkStation" or "ATW" being a transputer machine? Atari did. The ATW is the new name for the Abaq (apparently some European company owned rights to the name). > In last week's >_InfoWorld_, Cringely lists it as having a 25 Mhz 68030 for the main >processor, along with the Motorola 56000 DSP chip, 1 Meg system RAM, 1 >Meg Video Ram, 44 Meg removable hard disk, mondo graphics, a 4-slot >passive backplane with CPU occupying one slot, etc... for (ta da!) >$1995. This is a separate entity from the ATW. It's essentially the descendant of the TT, which never made it past prototype. And, as has already been remarked upon, this Cringely fellow's comments must be taken with liberally-applied grains of salt. Let's wait and see what Atari really announces. And then let's wait and see what they actually _release_, which is often quite a different matter. -- -Jonathan Fischer Mr. Walkman
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdragon!spurge!jafischer From: jafischer@spurge.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: NeXT announcement (was Re: Atari Workstation) Message-ID: <9345@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 27 Oct 88 22:38:02 GMT References: <1449@wayback.UUCP> <6528@pyr.gatech.EDU> <10019@cup.portal.com> <9087@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <234@obie.UUCP> Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu Reply-To: jafischer@spurge.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 21