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Re: NeXT and Atari...

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From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 20:30
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In article <12370@umd5.umd.edu> adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:
>  In article <1992Apr4.151212.8500@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>  
>  jreiss@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Joseph W Reiss) writes:
>  > 
>  > A while back, someone posted news of the new Atari Falcon.  That was
>  > the one with the DSP, True Color, and a lot of things which made it
>  > look similar to the NeXT.  Since that time, a lot of people in
>  > comp.sys.atari.st have been talking about rumors that NeXT is looking
>  > at a joint venture with Atari, perhaps porting NeXTStep to the Falcon,
>  > perhaps looking at the Falcon as a 3rd party, low end NeXT.  No one
>  > there has been able to confirm or deny any of these rumors.
>  
>  Yeah right.  That would be like SUN signing up with Sinclair to port  
>  Openlook to the ZX81 series.  Hahahaah.

Well, a 25mhz 040, 56001, and 24-bit color doesn't sound like a Sinclair to  
me...   Of course, it might not even exist.  If it were cheap and could perform  
as well as a NeXTstation color, it could be HOT with NeXTstep.


andrew
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Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 20:30:24 GMT