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From: bw0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bryan Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Significance of ANTIC in Atari parlance.
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Date: 4 Apr 89 19:35:33 GMT
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> *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.sys.atari.st: 29-Mar-89 Re: Significance of ANTIC*
> *i.. to_stdnet@stag.UUCP (1446)*
> things that were in memory. That was one of the nicest features of the
> 8-bits. It's a pity that some other similar custom hardware doesn't appear
> for the ST, or some other vendor's computer. (I mean a computer that costs
> less that $1000 now.)
Actually.. there is a similar graphics chip in a computer .. The Amiga.. Yup,
that's right - This is probably because the guy who designed the 800 computer
went to design the Amiga computer (when it was funded by Atari).. well, anyway,
I hear that they have display lists and dli's and so on..  Oh well.. :)

here's a bit of trivia:
Sometimes the chips in Atari's stuff was named after secretaries who worked
there:
Amy - the sound chip (what ever happened to it?)
Tia - ?
Maria - in the 7800 game system
etc..

-Bryan Wu