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From: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: the Atari TT
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Date: 8 May 89 17:46:43 GMT
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Reply-To: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
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In article <13508@paris.ics.uci.edu> jvance@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Joachim Vance) writes:
>Here's what Atari says about the TT in their 1988 Annual Report (just got it):
>  "Atari TT....
>  The TT will be able to interface with the outside world through industry 
>  standard SCSI, VME, MIDI and RS232 ports.  

Let's hope the SCSI isn't yet-another-non-standard-standard-SCSI...
(at last report this "standard" definitely wasn't).

Sounds like in general, though, they're moving towards standard
interfaces for as many things as they possibly can.  Probably a very
good idea.

> Local Area Networking (LAN) 
>  comes standard on the TT system and Ethernet will be available to 
>  further enhance this product."
>I know this answered some questions for me but left more new ones unanswered.

Yes, it does leave some things open, doesn't it?
What I'm wondering is, what kind of LAN support it comes with out of the
box, if Ethernet is an option?  
Maybe (unfounded speculation) it's Appletalk, and we can get
that last little limitation of the Spectre dealt with once and for
all... ;) 

-Antonio Romero       romero@confidence.princeton.edu