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From: romero@mind.UUCP (Antonio Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Idris for the ST
Message-ID: <2052@mind.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 88 17:47:10 GMT
Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University
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UnixWorld magazine's "product of the month" article for January
1988 was the Mega 2 ST running Idris as a five-user operating system.  
They described the introduction of Idris as follows:

	Atari Corp., previously best known for its contributions to
	entertainment and games computing, has made its first major foray into
	the business computing market, offering a five-user machine with 2
	Mbytes of memory and a 20-Mbyte hard disk, running a Unix look-alike,
	at a sytem cost of under $2800.

	Atari has announced that Idris... and seven business software pachkages
	have been ported to Atari's ST and Mega computers.  It's part of
	Atari's long-term strategy to enter the business market...

Does this imply that there is now some kind of official connection 
between Atari and the makers of Idris, or some kind of official Atari
endorsement of Idris as an alternative OS for the ST? (The article even 
directs inquiries about Idris on the ST to Atari, not to the makers of
Idris...)

Also: Can existing Atari applications be run under Idris or will they
have to be ported?  The article makes it sound like Unix applications
will port easily but says nothing at all about current ST software.

Anyway, that's it.  I know this is probably old news, but while I've
seen much talk of Idris I've seen nothing that suggests a relationship
between Atari and Computer Tools International (makers of Idris) before
running across this article... any clarification, Atari?


Antonio Romero     romero@psycho.princeton.edu

PS-- the article also talks some about the Abaq and the 68030, but nothing
that hasn't been said here already...