Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!philmds!prle!cstw01!meulenbr From: meulenbr@cstw01.UUCP (Frans Meulenbroeks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TT TT/X specs (rumour?) Message-ID: <253@cstw01.UUCP> Date: 4 Nov 88 12:26:15 GMT References: <252@cstw01.UUCP> <1216@atari.UUCP> Reply-To: meulenbr@cstw01.UUCP (Frans Meulenbroeks) Organization: Centre for Software Technology, Philips Eindhoven Lines: 71 [Sorry, I could not let this pass. I've trimmed Roy's article. read the original if you want all the details] WARNING: flames ahead. In article <1216@atari.UUCP> good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good) writes: >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 Ah! So there is really such a thing as a TT! [...] >As a VERY important aside, that diagram (as with all my similar documentation) >was very clearly marked: "Atari Corporation - Company Confidential". Its It did not say so in the magazine. [...] >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. There is no way, for me to determine whether or not the information was confidential. Also recall that I added the string "rumour?" to the subject line. I just thought Germany was a little ahead of us (like often happens with Atari stuff). >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 just reported what I read elsewhere, mentioning my source. I am NOT and I don't feel obliged to verify this with Atari Sunnyvale. I don't know for your side of the big water, but at THIS side has something constitutional called freedom of press and speech. In other words: next time I probably will do the same. [...] >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. How do I know when it is an official announcement. Atari did never ever send me something after sending in my warranty card, so I'll have to use the press & Usenet to get info. > >Roy Good/Atari Sunnyvale Some more: I quoted one magazine, but saw several other articles in the (German) press (with related info). Fact is that we all know that atari is working on something with a 030 or related. Fact is also that they have a large? boot at Comdex. (so perhaps something will be happening) Fact is that Germany is very often well and early informed. I'd suggest atari to stop the rumours by giving some info. (If they really have a product out at comdex they must have some basic info by now). For instance, I for me have one question. Will the -perhaps non-existing- 68030 box use tos 1.4, or are we to expect another version of tos (and is that version compatible with the 68000 version). I'd really *want* a tos which could also run on my 68020! -- Frans Meulenbroeks (meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl) Centre for Software Technology ( or try: ...!mcvax!philmds!prle!cst!meulenbr)