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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Atari/Perihelion Transputer Machine Spec
Message-ID: <2258@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 17:24:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 11 17:24:49 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 06:46:22 EST
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Keywords: Atari Transputer Perihelion Helios

In article <4059@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jafischer@tiger.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer) writes:
>
>	Many thanks to Chuck McManis for his informative posting about the
>show.  I thought I'd post Antic's online repors from Compuserve as well.
>
>
>     Permission to reprint or excerpt is granted only if the following line
>appears at the top of the article:
>
[darn that line eater]
>
>     ATARI MEANS BUSINESS
>     A REPORT FROM THE 1988 COMDEX
>     By Anita Malnig, START Editor
>
>     Las Vegas, November 2, 1987 --
>
>     Atari intends to give the likes of Sun Microsystems and Apollo
>Computers a run for the money with Abaq (the root word for abacus), the new
>transputer-based workstation that the company is showing here.

Hardly. What they showed was a prototype. When they finally get this turkey
to market, Sun and Apollo will have something, err, uhh, rather interesting.

Sorry. Not a contender.

[other boring rehash of ST hype deleted]

>				- Jonathan A. Fischer


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