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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 68030 Un*x Workstation
Message-ID: <1705@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 03:23:07 GMT
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Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
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In article <5504@uwmcsd1.UUCP> john1233@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Thomas M Johnson) writes:
>Why is Atari producing a 68030 machine that runs UNIX (or a clone)
>when the ABAQ will also run UNIX (or a clone)?

I got a statement of a guy of Perihelion at the Hannover faire: The Abaq
will run Helios, an operating system defenitly *new* and not U*IX.
There will be an enviroment with C compiler/make/shell/etc looking like
Unix (compareble to MT C Shell for the ST).
It should be possible to port Unix-applications to the Abaq; perihelion
doesn't want to pay for the complete Unix.
>Aren't both machines aimed at the same market? And from everything
>For what I've read on this group so far, the ABAQ is superior.
It is. Of course. I've seen a couple of demos of Transputers running at
the CeBIT (Hannover). They are FAST. Unbelieveble fast.
>Or is the 030 computer targeted for current ST users?
I don't think so. It will be a little more expensive (if it will be at
all... 8-)
hase
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