Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uokvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!okstate.UUCP!uokvax.UUCP!emjej From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: unix on the 520st (why there is Message-ID: <38700006@uokvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Dec-85 12:24:00 EST Article-I.D.: uokvax.38700006 Posted: Sun Dec 29 12:24:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 31-Dec-85 06:24:18 EST References: <2664@sunybcs.UUCP> Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #R:sunybcs.UUCP:2664:uokvax.UUCP:38700006:000:1161 Nf-From: uokvax.UUCP!emjej Dec 29 11:24:00 1985 /* Written 9:18 pm Dec 25, 1985 by ugjohna@sunybcs.UUCP in net.micro.atari */ I just read in infoworld that AT&T have signed a deal with Atari to release the 520ST under their label with the UNIX V operating system. I have also heard numerous rumours that this machine will come standard with monochrome, 20meg hard drive, 1 meg onboard, and will sell for $1000. Can any of you people who work at AT&T either confirm or deny any or all of this info. If not, how about a clue???? /* End of text from net.micro.atari */ Because V : the System, like essentially all versions of Unix, relies heavily on memory mapping hardware, the current 520ST will NOT support it. This is not to say that AT&T might not write a version of "the standard OS for the world" that doesn't require it, but it would be a considerable effort, and I doubt that such a thing will happen. It's probably easier to persuade Atari to redesign the ST. I wouldn't mind seeing the ST those rumors describe--it would be a nice machine to run OS-9 on when (no longer if, it seems) it comes out for the ST. James Jones