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From: siebren@cwi.nl (Siebren van der Zee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What does ST stand for?
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Date: 26 Apr 89 11:06:25 GMT
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In article <4760@umd5.umd.edu> bbourbin@umd5.umd.edu (Brett Bourbin) writes:
>	My understanding was that "ST" stood for "Sixteen-Thirty Two",
>as the 68000 is a sixteen bit processor with 32 bit data and address
>registers.

Amazing, the National 32016 was called 16016 before they upgraded the
bus width. Could this have anything to do with the ST?
Maybe Atari first planned to build the ST around that chip?

	Siebren van der Zee, siebren@cwi.nl