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From: bdm@fabry.rice.edu (Brian D. Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT, and while I'm at it, MIDI
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.171009.19496@rice.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 17:10:09 GMT
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In article <1991Feb18.003539.647@abode.wciu.edu>, scale@abode.wciu.edu (Luis Outumuro) writes:

|> 		ATX (Atari's UNIX V.4) is near completion.  Look for an 
|> announcement to be made at the CeBit show in March.
|> 	Supposedly Atari had an earlier (older) verison of UNIX halfway done,
|> they decided not to bring it out (because it would have been one version 
|> behind).  So Atari put thier efforts towards UNIX V.4.  Bye........
|> 

     OK, mea culpa.  This is the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle I needed.
I had heard that the TT was one version behind, which now turns out to be
V.3, and not V.4.  When I read the article, and read V.4, I assumed that 
this was still the case.  I had expected a higher number, since the local
SysOp has a higher number (and says UNIX on the same line -- what a mess),
and the notoriously goofy numbering of UNIX itself.  (And, of course, Atari's
history, recent and past, but that is neither here nor there.)  So perhaps
Atari is, if not ahead of the curve, then at least not slipping into the
computer Cenezoic Era.  However, I reserve the right to air any future
complaints, lest the squeaky gear not get the oil...   :-)

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