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		Product Release  (Confidential)

	

	Atari Corp. is rumoured to have recieved a small number of 78000
Motorola CPU's.  (These are as yet unreleased by Motorola) Atari has
been working on a new machine based on these processors.  It's unofficial
name is B.S. 3020.  Following is a description of the machine.

	The operating system will be drun*x, a un*x clone developed by
DRI.  The machine comes with 20 rs232 ports.  A 80386 coprocessor board
is included for compatibility with the IBM world.  GEM processes will run
after the binary files have been passed through a filter developed by
the atari sodtware team.  The Memory configuration includes 1 meg of ROM
and 1 meg of ram buffers.  On board memory is expandable to a 48 meg limit.

	The release date for the B.S. 3020 is 1st April 1988.  


	We were able to contact a beta test site and these are some of
their findings.

	-There can only be 40 processes running at a time.  When we
	 had 20 users logged on we found out that each user could only
	 have one process running.  Apparently this is because the login
	 process is included in this max.

	-There can only be 20 files open in the whole system at one time.

	-A compile requires 6 files to be open at the same time.

	-We have not been able to get PCC (Portable C Compiler) to run.

	-The password file is not encrypted.

	-Atari seems to have solved their i/o problem.  Floppies run faster
	 than their own hard drives.  (Or could it be that their new improved
	 hard drives run slower than their floppies)

	-If the sysop logs in from a different terminal the system crashes.

	-GEM programs passed trough the filter seem to be able to over ride
	 the memory protection and will crash the system.

	-But apart from these problems it seems to work ok.

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	*  These opinions are mine but after atari reads them   *
	*  they will probably start climing that they are theirs*
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John W. Buchanan                  Dynamic Graphics Project
               			  Computer Systems Research Institute
(416) 978-6619			  University of Toronto

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