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From: nelson@kodak.UUCP (bruce nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Atari's COMDEX Announcements
Message-ID: <994@kodak.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 06:43:11 EST
Article-I.D.: kodak.994
Posted: Wed Nov  4 06:43:11 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 10:33:28 EST
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY
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Keywords: transputers, clones

The following is my understanding of the product announcements made by Atari
Corporation at COMDEX in Las Vegas on 11/2/87, although since I wasn't there,
the facts might have been muddled. Corrections/comments are invited.

1) The Abaq, an ultra-high-performance workstation using transputer chips.

2) A CD-ROM player which interfaces to the ST or MEGA through a DMA. It will
   also play audio CD's. Cost is under $600, available early '88.

3) A NETBIOS standard LAN which communicates at 1 megabit/sec to PC's and
   250K bits/sec to APPLETALK.

4) Desktop publishing via the SLM804 laser printer using Deskset from G.O.
   Graphics.

5) Several 3rd-party packages running under IDRIS, a multi-user, multi-tasking
   OS similar to UNIX (R). 

6) The PC2, a PC XT compatible, and the PC4, a PC AT compatible.

I'd like to invite Neil to fully elaborate on the above when he returns from
Comdex.

Bruce D. Nelson                 | {}!rutgers!kodak!{nelson | ektools!bruce}
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