Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!portal!atari!good
From: good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 68030 box, Cringely, Comdex
Message-ID: <1199@atari.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 88 19:03:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: atari.1199
References: <881024222344.098664@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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in article <881024222344.098664@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM>, Friesen@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM says:
> 
> 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
> move to select Helios seems to show the importance of the European
> market, that is what is equivilent there to our UNIX here).  Can anyone
> comment on this?
> Aric Friesen

Helios is the parallel processing version of UNIXtm which is the basis of
the transputer based Atari Transputer Workstation (ATW, formerly known as
Abaq).

Our 68030 box will run X/OPEN compliant V.3.1. Which shows our commitment to
both Europe (X/OPEN) AND USA (V.3.1)!
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Roy J. Good
Product Development, Atari Corporation
Views expressed are my own. Atari may agree or disagree; they have the right.
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