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From: wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: I have a dream ....
Message-ID: <1990May29.203020.28441@pmsmam.uucp>
Date: 29 May 90 20:30:20 GMT
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I have a recurring dream (some might call it a nightmare):

Dave Small manufactures a new motherboard/box for the Atari with a 25-Mhz
68030, an EISA bus (that actually WORKS with cheap, available PC interface/
memory boards), at least 2 serial ports (one with 8530 controller for Ham
Packet), full, REAL SCSI, capable of booting a UNIX (or look-alike) OS
that runs TOS as a GUEST process so most, if not all, of my software
collection is still usable. Plus X11R4, 16 MB RAM capacity, Spectre GCR
built in (or available as a simple plug-in option).

Sigh, It can't happen, can it?  Someone like Dave (or some other happy
hardware hacker) couldn't possibly put together such a system, could they?
They couldn't possibly keep the cost competitive with a 386SX PC-Clone,
could they?

Ah, it's only a dream like the other one where the enraged ST community stages
an LBO of Atari and ....
-- 
Bill Meahan  WA8TZG		uunet!mailrus!umich!pmsmam!wwm
I speak only for myself - even my daughter's cat won't let me speak for her!