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From: fraga@faculty.cs.ubc.ca (Eric Fraga)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Taken ABAQ, back to the days of void and vapor.
Keywords: ABAQ, transputer workstation, vaporware?
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Date: 6 Sep 88 18:15:59 GMT
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In article <5643@ut-emx.UUCP> jbone@ut-emx.UUCP (Jeff G. Bone) writes:
>
>So, what's the scoop on the Atari ABAQ? 
>
> ...
>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?
> ...
>-jgb (jbone@emx.utexas.edu) ---------- "Everyone's head is a cheap movie show."

I saw (and touched) one in April in Dundee, Scotland.  It was, according
to the Atari guys, the only one in existence at that time.  It was very
much a prototype, a kludge using a mega st2 as a front end (I was told
that production models would have the mega part of it built in).  The
graphics demos running were quite impressive but the OS didn't impress
me...  sort of a un*x clone not done quite right.  The shell looked like
a combination of csh and pc-dos.  But then again, this was quite a while
ago and it was very much a pre-production demo.
Eric S Fraga, Dept of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
+1 604 228 6770, fraga@cs.ubc.cdn