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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NeXT announcement (was Re: Atari Workstation)
Summary: AWS?  Transputer?  Nah...
Message-ID: <234@obie.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 88 07:07:42 GMT
References: <1449@wayback.UUCP> <6528@pyr.gatech.EDU> <10019@cup.portal.com> <9087@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: the Well of Souls
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In article <10019@cup.portal.com> BobR@cup.portal.com writes:
> The "Under $5000" workstation will now cost $8500 (U.S.) with one transputer,
> with optional cards of four more transputers available.  The operating
> system on the "AWS" will be Helios...

In article <9087@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, jafischer@spurge.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer) replies:
| 	Speaking of the AWS, what are peoples' feelings about how it will 
| stand up to the competition of the new NeXT machine [....] ?
| [...]  Granted, the AWS offers multiprocessing AND an OS written for
| multiprocessing; it also offers better graphics capabilities.

Whoa, wait a minute here!  Who said anything about the "Atari
WorkStation" or "AWS" being a transputer machine?  In last week's
_InfoWorld_, Cringely lists it as having a 25 Mhz 68030 for the main
processor, along with the Motorola 56000 DSP chip, 1 Meg system RAM, 1
Meg Video Ram, 44 Meg removable hard disk, mondo graphics, a 4-slot
passive backplane with CPU occupying one slot, etc... for (ta da!)
$1995.

I guess we'll all just have to wait 'til Comdex to find out, huh?  See
you at the show!

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