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From: brazil@pawl.rpi.edu (Timothy E. Onders)
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Subject: Re: ATW
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Date: 3 Apr 89 03:49:21 GMT
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In article <1852@trantor.harris-atd.com> rsimonian@x102c.harris-atd.com (Simonian RP 66449) writes:
>The latest issue of ST-Informer, from information gathered at CeBit, states
>that the ATW will run around $8000, and that Atari decided NOT to market
>it as an add-on to any existing ST.

Julius Oklamkac(hope I spelled that right), the Developer Support person
for Atari Canada says that the price they are tossing around right now
is somewhere around $5,000 to $6,000. The $2,500 should have been British
Pounds, not dollars. 

Also, it will not be made available as an expansion for present ST's.

Two other interesting things, to give you a sense of when this thing is
going to be available, Prentice Hall Publishing will be selling a three
volume set of Helios manuals within the next few months.

And lastly, Benchmark Statistics. As far as interger benchmarks go, without
using on-chip ram, the 20MHz T800 can out perform a 20MHz 68020. For 
floating point, a 20MHz T800 is 50% faster than a 25MHz 80386 with Witek
Floating Point Co-Processor.  If it is allowed to use on-chip ram, all
figures go up by a factor of 5 or 6.

Tim Onders
brazil@pawl.rpi.edu