Wayne%OZ.AI.MIT.EDU@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU (Wayne McGuire) (08/30/86)
More rumor mill material: this sounds too good to be true (I wonder if Neil
could comment):
Compute's Atari ST, October 1986, p. 10, ST News & Notes:
Overheard during dinner at Pacific Fresh, a Sunnyvale seafood eatery
just a stone's throw from Atari Headquarters on Borregas Avenue:
Atari's next computer will attempt to penetrate Fortune 500 companies
in a big way. To be announced and shown in November at the Winter Computer
Dealer Exposition (COMDEX) in Las Vegas, the Atari GST (the actual name
varies depending on the day of the week) will be driven by a 32-bit 68020
microprocessor with a whopping four megabytes of memory. A two-meg version
of the GST may be shown in the U.S., but will probably be marketed only in
Europe.
The GST's operating system will be a System V-compatible Unix, although
a hardware switch will allow the system to be booted in ST mode to run ST
software. A 20- or 30-megabyte hard disk drive will be standard along with
an MS-DOS emulator and built-in networking capabilities.
Even more interesting is the GST's monochrome-only screen display,
which will be vertically oriented and boast a resolution of 1024 x 1024
pixels for true workstation quality. It's said to include most of the
functionality of AT&T's BLIT (Bell Labs Intelligent Terminal).
At this point, Atari hopes to start shipping the GST by the end of the
second quarter in 1987. T-NET networking software is planned to be
available in the third quarter.
The price of this package should send severe shock waves throughout the
industry: Watch for a sticker price around $1,995 to $2,495, plus a network-
capable laser printer for about $1,000.jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (09/02/86)
Guess it just shows ta go ya that ya gotta be careful what ya talk about over lunch in Sunnyvale. Assuming it was all true and not just disinformation! -jhs