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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Current Status of ST Emulation Packages
Message-ID: <1502@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 23:53:56 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 23 23:53:56 1987
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Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Summary: IBM-PC hardware emulator: NOT soon, probably never

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A little correction: the Atari PC, an IBM-PC clone, is expected to start
selling soon (as in a few months).  It has NOTHING to do with the ST.
The 8086 hardware add-on box for the ST is, I personally suspect, well,
just forget it.  Too bad they mentioned it a year ago and wetted our
appetites...

FLAME ON:

There is no reason why Atari should make each and every piece of hardware
we might want.  There are good reasons, though, why they should stop promising
what they cannot deliver, thus letting the third parties in to react to the
demand where it exists.

FLAME OFF.

Question: will Atari convert the STs to a 1.4-Megabyte disk format compatible
with the new IBM PS/2 machines?

- Moshe Braner