Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!imagen!atari!good
From: good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT TT/X specs (rumour?)
Message-ID: <1216@atari.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 88 17:54:32 GMT
References: <252@cstw01.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
Lines: 42

in article <252@cstw01.UUCP>, meulenbr@cstw01.UUCP (Frans Meulenbroeks) says:
> 
> Yesterday I had a brief glance on a german magazine called
> "68000 ST magazin" or something like that.
> They had a 2 page article on the TT and TT/X, together with a
> functional schematic with the name Roy Good on it.
[rest of posting deleted]
The only 'block diagram' that I have produced (via EasyDraw!) for the TT is
one which was given to certain subsidiaries as a preliminary view of
current architectural thinking at the time. Specs' have changed since that
draft, so as I said last week, don't believe what you read in the press!!

As a VERY important aside, that diagram (as with all my similar documentation)
was very clearly marked: "Atari Corporation - Company Confidential". Its
reproduction is clearly a betrayal of that confidentiality, and of the trust
with which I released it to the subsidiaries. I will certainly follow up
on how this information could be published, and it must make you realize
why I am so reticent to post or release ANY preproduction information.

It is no wonder that Atari, and others, get a poor image in public when
journalists publish preliminary or confidential information
which has every right to be changed without notification. I have tried to
keep this net, at least, reasonably well informed without making details
or schedules public which I do not feel certain are yet definitive. 

Even if the information was obtained through apparently legitimate channels, 
I believe that the writer should by now be sensitive to the effect of 
publishing prerelease data, and should therefore have taken the step of 
verifying its accuracy and timeliness with Atari Sunnyvale. 

I realize I may be having a stronger reaction to this than may be warranted, 
but I see so much traffic on the net spreading and modifying rumors which 
are unsubstantiated (and more than often flat out misleading or totally wrong). 
The energy which we expend in trying to straighten out the mess could be much 
more usefully applied in resolving some of the issues of product development 
and support which REALLY need addressing.

By all means read these articles, but please do not accept them as gospel
(or whatever your personal religious equivalent may be) unless and until
an official product announcement is generally released by Atari Sunnyvale.

Roy Good/Atari Sunnyvale