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From: jbone@ut-emx.UUCP (Jeff G. Bone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Taken ABAQ, back to the days of void and vapor.
Keywords: ABAQ, transputer workstation, vaporware?
Message-ID: <5643@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 20:16:51 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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So, what's the scoop on the Atari ABAQ? 

Back in the Fall of last year and in the Spring it seemed like the world was
a-buzz with news of Atari's new transputer-based Helios (UNIX-clone?) work-
station.  It was supposed to have super-duper graphics and come shipped with
(I think) Occam, C (an implementation that supported asynch-parallel prog-
ramming), and all sorts of other goodies.  One article even said that developer
materials were shipping (this was, maybe, April), and even gave an address for
ordering docs and becoming a registered developer.

Now, I'm hearing rumors that Atari has stopped showing the thing at the shows,
and there hasn't been any mention of the thing in <long time now>.

C'mon guys, let's get that old rumor mill cranking again.  Does this thing 
really exist?  Has any body seen/touched/played with one? Or is this in fact
just another case of vaporous Atari products, like the thought-controlled
video game and the portable, DC-powered holographic video game?

So is this thing going to be released or what?  Anybody in-the-know, let's
hear it.








-jgb (jbone@emx.utexas.edu) ---------- "Everyone's head is a cheap movie show."