Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!jbone
From: jbone@ut-emx.UUCP (Jeff G. Bone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NeXT announcement (was Re: Atari Workstation)
Summary: Different Machines!
Message-ID: <7353@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 88 15:13:35 GMT
References: <1449@wayback.UUCP> <6528@pyr.gatech.EDU> <10019@cup.portal.com> <234@obie.UUCP>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Lines: 26

In article <234@obie.UUCP>, wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
> Whoa, wait a minute here!  Who said anything about the "Atari
> WorkStation" or "AWS" being a transputer machine?  In last week's...

Looks like somebody hasn't been following the recent discussion here.  Just
for the record:

There are two different machines.  One is (apparently) a 68030-based machine
running System V UNIX.  The other is (apparently) what they were at one time
calling the ABAQ, which they are now (apparently) calling the ATW, for Atari
transputer workstation.

Interesting note:  The 68030-based machine is purportedly priced at about
$2000, while the transputer-based machine is priced near $9000.  Do they
want to kill all interest in the transputer machine, or what?  It was at
one time being hyped as a sort of semi-low cost high performance add-on
for STs!

Surely they could have made the ATW more competitively priced...

Just a thought.




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