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From: winston@fjcnet.GOV (Winston M. Llamas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 386's, TT's, a machine I want
Summary: software availability
Message-ID: <214@fjcp60.GOV>
Date: 27 Oct 89 12:44:56 GMT
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In article <0926891056429243@thelake.UUCP>, steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington) writes:
> 
> If the TT runs all properly written ST software (much faster!), what's the
> big deal? And the optional Unix OS is said to be System V and capable of
> running anything written for the Motorola binary standard. I don't think
> it's reasonable to term either of those software bases "insignificant."
> 
I would hope that Atari can release their version of Unix for the TT within
a reasonable time period of the computer's release (unlike Commodore, which 
has promised Unix on the Amiga for years now).  The availability of Unix
applications would be a boon, but I doubt whether the average Atari user out
there is going to bother with Unix unless it is made considerably easier to
use.  I'm not really sure the TTP configuration of the machine will actually
support Unix (there does not seem to be any reason it should not).  By the time
a TT system is configured to run Unix, one will probably have to spend upwards
of three thousand dollars to get a workable system (not bad for a Motorola
based machine, but Apollo diskless workstations don't cost that much more).
As I said, we'll have to wait and see if Atari can bring these products out
in time.  I'm not sure I can hold my breath that long, however.
 
-Winston