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From: iadt2tg@pyr.gatech.EDU (Terry O. Greenlaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari at Comdex
Summary: What's the status of the 68030 box ???
Message-ID: <6797@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 18 Nov 88 20:55:04 GMT
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Organization: I.S.A. @ Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <11426@cup.portal.com>, Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) writes:
--> Bad News:
--> .... 
--> 2.  No Atari 68030 box was shown.

 I was under the impression that this was going to be Atari's big machine for
 Comdex. It certainly would fill a niche (gap?) as far as under $5000.00 *NIX
 boxes go. Everybody and their grandmother, including C= ;-} ,has a PClone
 out. Sun and NeXT have the > 5000 market pretty much sewn up for now. Apple
 has K through 12th grades for the educational market. A 68030 *NIX machine
 aimed at the college crowd seems like the obvious choice for a company so
 desperately looking for a gap to fill. I don't know of any students here at
 Tech with 6500 burning a hole in their pocket to spend on a NeXT, but 
 2000-3000 would raise a few eyebrows. 
 
 Please Atari, do something to convince me that the ST shouldn't be the last
 Atari product I buy. I was really looking forward to getting my hands on a
 machine with a STANDARD bus architecture (VME), O.S. (*NIX), windowed
 interface (X Windows), etc. with an ATARI pricetag.