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From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 68030 box, Cringely, Comdex
Message-ID: <629@stag.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 88 14:15:51 GMT
References: <881024222344.098664@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM>
Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN
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In article <881024222344.098664@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM> Friesen%PCO@BCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM writes:
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>
>Steve Yelvington compared the NeXT to the (hopefully)
>soon-to-be-released Atari workstaion.  In doing so, he said that it
>would run with GEM, and implied that that would be run "over" UNIX.
>
>From my understanding, it will be Helios, which is far from UNIX.  (this

Helios is the OS intended for the Transputer based machine, not the
68030 based one. Two different Atari products. From my information,
Atari's first low end 68030 based machine was to be:

  1) 16 MHz 68030,
  2) Gem/Tos in ROM (for compatibility and an existing SW base)
  3) A multi-tasking kernel partnered in ROM as well (originally
     intended to be MW Coherent, but haven't heard if that panned out.)
  4) Moderate resolution color graphics (in the 800x600 or so range),
     but I am sure this could change greatly by they time it gets
     released.
  5) 1MB memory
  6) roughly 1500 or so price.
  7) released end of 88, early 89 (all this info is from earlier this
     year.

If the latest info of a March production delivery date of the 68030
holds, then I am somewhat upset from a developer viewpoint...I had
hopes of getting one for some heavy duty tool and human interface
development. When a developer release date is almost the same as a production
release date, there is less incentive to dig into a machine and try to
set any standards.

  -Todd Burkey
   trb@stag.UUCP