atoenne@laura.UUCP (Andreas Toenne) (09/05/88)
Hi Atari Fans (Haters ?) as an employee of an exhibitor for Smalltalk80 on MegaST (great stuff anyway) I visited the German Atari fair in Duesseldorf today. Among lots of *very* boring software and demos I found the following... TOS 1.4 alife and kicking (actually on the machine next to me). It's fast and shows a good feeling for hard disks (though i discovered a bug in the first ten minutes. But hey! who expects a beta version to be bug free?) I was told that the main schedule for the ROMs is end of november. A 1280@960 points screen compatible to most Atari products (including our Smalltalk80) for about 5000 DM (thats 2500-3000$). Lots of $$ but a nice and high quality product. The legendary Atari CD ROM!!! It's real. The Atari transputer machine (just another demo, but the machine works still :-) Lots of rumours about the TT. Seems Atari is really working on it. Andreas Toenne