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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: New Atari, and new Amiga ADS
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Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 14:16:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 14:16:21 1987
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In article <4121@udenva.UUCP> pbrody@udenva.UUCP (Paul Brody ) writes:
|	The information on the new Atari computer is limited, and I am not 
|entirely sure of it, but this is what (as best I can remember) The Guardian
|had to say about the new ST machine:
|It would have an inmos transputer linked to a 68XXX.
|It would be downwards compatable with the ST series
|It would be developed in England by Perihelios PLC, and the OS will be called
|Helios, and will be written by Tim King.
                                ^^^^^^^^

Very interesting indeed, I hope that Perihelios provides a BCPL compiler for
it too. When I read this I got a delightful vision of Helios functions talking
to GEM functions where you have to both shift the address over by two bits
as well as swap the bytes to put them in 80x86 order. As some of you know Tim
was the major (only?) architect of AmigaDOS (just the DOS part not the exec
or graphics or anything).
--Chuck McManis
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