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From: brianb@bucsb.UUCP (Brian Bresnahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Just a little rumor...
Summary: Tired of rumors
Message-ID: <2102@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 88 19:10:17 GMT
References: <2940@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> <1483@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Reply-To: brianb@bucsb.bu.edu (Brian Bresnahan)
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In article <1483@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> brazil@pawl17.pawl.rpi.edu
(Timothy E. Onders) writes:

I don't know about anyone else here, but I am getting a little tired
of all the speculation about the 68030 machine, every article seems to
have a different description of features, and they all have amazingly
low prices.  Here is a prime example of this:

>Yes, it's true. Atari is introducing their 68030 machine at Comdex. It is
>supposed to be based on VME bus and can use Sun boards. It seems it will
>be running BSD 4.3 and will include 8 channel 16 bit digitized sound. The
>price estimate I heard floating around is $2000, but this could be dealer
>or developer, and I'm not sure with what options. It will most likely,
>however include the high rez 19" or 17" COLOR graphics system and monitor.
>It will start shipping soon after Comdex. This news is mostly from Sam
>Tramiel. 

The person here in talking about all the special features that this
machine has, neglects to mention some of the very importants basics.
How much memory does it have, what are the disk storage options,
backup facilities etc.  If you are going to have BSD UNIX on it then
it needs a lot of disk space and a good amount of memory.  All of this
stuff costs money.  From a rough estimate, the memory, storage and
monitor come close to $2000, this does not include CPU, software,
packaging etc.

>     Also, Atari has signed a big new RAM contract and will put all
>production, supposedly including the ATW, into full swing within two months.
>Atari plans to be one of the top 4 computer companies in the world in 1989,
>and I believe they will do it.

You believe that they are going to be bigger than some of the companies
on this list
IBM 
Apple
Digital
Wang
Prime
Control Data
Cray
Xerox
AT&T

Those are 8 that I know will be bigger, there are probably plenty more
which will be bigger.  Unless Atari gets way up in the Fortune 500, it
won't even be close.  I don't know who in Atari made this statement,
but that person is living in Fantasy land.

>					Timothy Onders
>					brazil@pawl.rpi.edu

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