MAURY@LAUCOSC.LAURENTIAN.CA (01/21/89)
I wish to thank all the people that replied to my earlier letter about
the Atari MMU. The replies that I received implied that, basically, the
MMU is misnamed and is NOT a real MMU.
My professor called a very helpful person at Atari Canada, who confirmed
this, saying that the Atari 68030 machine was the way to go for a really
low cost development machine. Although interested in both this and the
ATW (which, RUMOR has it, is avalible in Canada to developers),
he really required something in the tiime frame of the next few months, and
at a low cost.
The only problem left, it seems, is the budget. There is none. He
is now deciding whether or not a single user version of LUMOS is a
reasonable alterative to spending (aprox) $5000 CDN for the worthy
Amiga 2500, but paying for a lot of features that he has no need for
(colour, sound, a pricey colour monitor etc...) and still end up with an
only passable text display.
Oh, to the (first) person who wrote about the current state of affairs at
Stride: It seems that the company went through a lot of name changes, Sage,
Stride, then Micro Sage. It was then bought out by a raider who broke the
company, and now it seems to be back under the name "Millenium". Note: These
comments are all unfounded rumors.
Thanks again,
Maury Markowitz,
MAURY@LauCosc.Laurentian.CA
Disclaimer: I'm just a dumb 4th year Physics student! I don't work for,
represent or understand anyone except myself.