long@ittvax.UUCP (H. Morrow Long [Systems Center]) (02/14/85)
The Sunday New York Times featured an article about Jack Tramiel
(formerly of Commodore) and Atari. It was mostly about the new
mackintosh-like machine that Atari is supposedly releasing. But there
were 2 paragraphs deep within the article that state that Atari is
going to release a consumer-oriented Unix machine based on the National
Semiconductor 32-bit chip for under $1000. Is this real? Some of the
other prices quoted in the article sound quite unrealistic (10Megabyte
hard-disk drive for the Jackintosh for $400).
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research sii supai tmmnet twg uf-cgrl wxlvax yale}!ittvax!longmroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy) (02/18/85)
The jackintosh is out to sw developers. The 32 bit machine is currently vaporware. Tramiel usually brings stuff out on schedule at cost. The real question is what kind of quality will be delivered. It's worth the $1000 discount from the Mac to find out.
jss@sjuvax.UUCP (J. Shapiro) (02/19/85)
[Aren't you hungry...?] Even purchased at quantity 1000, it seems unlikely that Atari can market any machine based on the NS32016 series real soon if they use the FPU or the MMU. If they got some incredible deal, they could do it with just the CPU. Without the other chips, it probalby isn't worth it.