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From: Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: New Atari 68030 Machines
Message-ID: <21420@cup.portal.com>
Date: 19 Aug 89 03:27:35 GMT
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August 25th is slated as the day Atari Corp. announces its new products,
including the '030 machine.  A major ad campaign which is being handled
by the same ad firm which did the MacIntosh Olympic ads is also slated
to start this Fall - the money has beenspent - the ads WILL appear.
Accordin to Sam Tramiel in this month's START the '030 (aka TT) will
come in many onfigurations, one being a 6 meg machine which will have
TOS 1.4 built-in, will run UNIX 5.3.1 as a $299 add-on option and will
aslo emulate MS-DOS (and the Mac no doubt with Dave Small's Spectre GCR.)
Sam claims plenty of expandability (hurray!) with six or mor VME full
size VME slots.  It can be mated to a multi-sync as well as 'slightly
adjusted' VGA color and mono monitors.  The TT will offer a standard