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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The TT isn't late!
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Date: 1 Jun 90 13:16:00 GMT
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In article <30379@cup.portal.com> Bryan_Jones_Woodworth@cup.portal.com writes:
>>I talked to a source at Atari.  When will the TT be released?  Soon.
>
>Ah! I hope.  How much?   What exactly is a "TT"?  I suspect it is a direct
>competitor with the Amiga 3ooo?

I'm tempted to flippantly say that the TT is whatever the Atari paparazzi
need it to be, to sustain the One True Faith.  Actually, only Atari knows
exactly what a TT will be, and perhaps even they don't know yet.  Prototypes
have been shopped around to developers & magazines, but it's far from clear
that those bear any resemblance to whatever will finally get dropped off at
your Local Authorized Atari Dealers (wherever they might be).  START magazine
had a look at such a prototype a few months ago, and babbled a bit about the
guts of it.  Sounds to me like the 520ST of the 90's (basically a closed box,
w/ twiddled TOS, w/ 16 MHz 68030 & a few graphics tweaks); read that as you
may.

In short: you want speculation, we got it aplenty.  Facts, those require
patience.  And Faith.
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