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From: mfolivo@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark F. Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Atari Japan
Keywords: Kanji OS?
Message-ID: <2856@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 90 08:11:36 GMT
Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
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I had read in comp.sci.japan that Commodore Japan closed it's
doors, and it got me to thinking, how is Atari Japan doing? I have
seen an article about the Atari Lynx in a Japanese magazine, but
that's all I have seen about Atari in Japan.

The question, is there a Japanese OS for Japanese STs (if they
exist there)? For example, there is KanjiTalk for Apple Macintosh.
and a Japanese OS for IBM machines, and I'd be interested if there
was one for the ST, without having to do it through emulation.

By the way, does anyone know of any comments about the name Atari
in Japan? It was chosen from a move in the game Go, but atari
(lower case) has a few other meanings in Japanese, also.


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