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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The TT is finally there!
Keywords: TT
Message-ID: <2298@atari.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 90 01:33:39 GMT
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cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:
>The machine's architecture is too closed to be of
>any use as a workstation.

I beg to differ!  I think having SCSI and VME means there is a great
deal of openness.  You can buy lots of things on VME cards, even with
the relatively limited A24/D16, half-Eurocard, 3U format of the TT's
internal VME bus.  In Dusseldorf at the Atari fair I saw a company
selling a new box for the TT with slots for other form-factors of VME
cards.  They're still limited to A24/D16 (or A16/D8) but it is not
unreasonable to suppose that the TT will have a big brother with
full-size VME, more room inside for VME expansion and more rotating
media, and a beefier power supply to drive those power-hungry
peripherals.  Sounds pretty open to me!

(Note: "It is not unreasonable to suppose..." is my way of saying that
I'm not giving away secrets, and certainly not making promises, just
pointing out the obvious.)

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Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
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