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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 386's, TT's, a machine I want
Message-ID: <13067@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 89 16:42:23 GMT
References: <212@fjcp60.GOV> <211@fjcp60.GOV> <788@carroll1.UUCP> <0926891056429243@thelake.UUCP> <214@fjcp60.GOV>
Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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(A point of correction to a previous claim; ignore if you don't care about
 Unix availability...)
In article <214@fjcp60.GOV> winston@fjcnet.GOV (Winston M. Llamas) writes:
>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).
     No. Amiga hasn't given a shipping date for the US. They have repeatedly
said that they are working on it and they have repeatedly implied that it
will NOT be out in the US until the Amiga 3000 ships. When is that? They
refuse to say, since this is a ground-up, all 32-bit project - not at all
the same as just dropping a 68030 into an Amiga 2000 or 2500.
     If you want Unix right now, go to Europe.
>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.
     Last time I went shopping for a computer, I looked at the Atari ST
line. It didn't win out. I keep hoping that Atari will put its stuff
together and help prevent IBM and OS/2 from owning everything. (That's
why I read this group, by the way). I'm also not holding my breath.
                                                      - R'ykandar.
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