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From: fjmora@CS.WM.EDU (Fredric Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What does ST stand for?
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Date: 9 May 89 15:48:46 GMT
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In message dated 26 Apr 89 11:06:25 GMT, Siebren van der Zee writes:
>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
I doubt that there is a relationship, but the ST engineering team actually
considered for a while to build the ST around a NS chip, probably a 16016.
It was mentined in an old interview published (I think) in ST-Magazine.

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