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From: fred@mot.UUCP (Fred Christiansen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: New Atari machines (home UNIX at last?)
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 09:53:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 11 09:53:49 1985
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there have been references to the Atari 130ST for $299 on the net,
but i don't think i've yet seen mention of the 520ST (with 512K RAM)
which, as i recall, will come in around $599.  the printers are from
$150 and up, and the disk drives (3 1/2" floppy or hard) also from
$150 and up.  color and hi-res monochrome monitors will also be available.
perhaps someone who actually went to CES can correct my figures in case
my recall of what i heard 3rd or 4th hand is inaccurate.
     GEM and the CP/M-68k derived TOS are in 192K ROM.  interesting thing
about this architecture is that it does admit cloning, something much more
difficult to achieve with the Mac (due to proprietary OS).
     speculation about the unit to be revealed at Hanover will probably
continue to vacillate between 32032 and 68020.  National people are saying
the 32032, but then again there's what we're hearing ...
     home UNIX?  quite possibly with the 520ST or the next model.  in the
mean time, there is HP's Integral PC, a portable UNIX machine for $5K.

     p.s. it's the 6809, not the 6509, that comes from Motorola's 6800 family.
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Fred Christiansen, Motorola Microsystems, 2900 S Diablo Way, Tempe, AZ 85282
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