clark@mshri.utoronto.ca (04/11/90)
Having to deal with mserable-dos machines at work, I try to keep up with the field be reading a few pc publications. One of them, PC WEEK, is a weekly tabloid-style rag with lots of product anouncements and advertisments that they will send you free if you can convince them that you are responsible for buying lots of hardware or software for your company. (It's actually quite useful, and they are frequently very critical of IBM, which matches my opinion nicely.) One of the must-read columns is called Rumor Central, by "Spencer F. Katt", on the second last page. In the issue of March 26, 1990, he describes his trip to Taiwan to see what Intel is up to with the 586 processor, then continues: "Of course, the Katt didn't return straight home from the land of Chiang Kai-shek. He hopped Lufthansa to Germany for the Hannover Computer Fair, and feasted his eyes on goodies being shown there, including a new Atari machine -- which runs Unix on a 68030 processor and will sell for less than $2000." This reference to the TT is the only thing he says about the Hannover show. True, this wasn't a front page article, but maybe things aren't beyond hope for Atari if they can get some attention in a publication that describes itself as "THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER OF CORPORATE MICROCOMPUTING". (Being a Canadian, I will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that by _national_, they mean _not-regional_, and don't mean U.S.A.) I just thought there might be some interest. Steve clark@mshri.utoronto.ca (Internet) sinai@utoroci (Netnorth/Bitnet) "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the context of evolution"