UD140469@NDSUVM1.BITNET (11/04/87)
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Here's a portion of the "Robert X. Cringley" column from the Nov. 2nd issue of
Infoworld:
"...I just knew the Atari boss was feeling good, with his transputer
about to go public and a laptop transputer in the works. And
monitors!--my spies in Hong Kong say Jack has a new factory churning
out super hi-res color monitors at a price so low he can sell them for
less than it costs other companies just to make theirs. Look for
Jack's 1280-by-960 monitors coming from a major peripheral vendor and
a TV/montior version under the Atari label selling at Jack's Federated
electronics stores.
Yes, I you read correctly--laptop *transputer*. This is the first I'd heard of
such a beast, but then "Robert X. Cringley" was the first, as far as I know, to
break the news about the Mega (a month or more before they were announced), and
was pretty accurate, so maybe what he said here is true. That monitor he
mentions sounds an awful lot like the "EST" monitor I mentioned last week--
however, I'm really suprised that they're actually *producing* them.
In another rumor, I heard today on the evening news that a bunch of trade
restrictions on Japan are being lifted, including something to do with computer
chips. I wonder how this will affect RAM costs (and hence the cost of the
Megas).
Scott Udell
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