kimes@ihlpe.UUCP (10/02/87)
The following short blurb is in the Raster Scan column of the 9/28/87 issue of Electronic Engineering Times. "Atari sources won't confirm or deny rumours that they have been in negotiation with NeXT Inc. for sharing graphics and memory management technology. Atari has already started sampling its 68000-based, 4-Mbyte Mega system to developers. Some Mega versions are even fluent in Smalltalk, living up to the user interface inroads pioneered at Xerox Parc nearly a decade ago. Before Comdex, Atari is expected to unveil a variant of the Mega system that will become the company's Macintosh II challenger. Little is known, save that it will likely sport the capability to show 1280 x 960 pixel color and monochrome graphics. Resolution-wise, that outdoes the majority of add-on color displays for the IBM-PC and Mac II, operating at 1024 x 760-pixel levels. But, the Mac has a loyal university following. And, the midnight oil is already burning at campuses lucky enough to have worked with Mac II systems this summer. At the recent Mac Expo in Boston, dozens of examples of university-developed graphics expertise were on display. And, if Apple can continue to support the low-cost talent available in graduate computer labs, it may stave off lower-priced, equal or better, computer graphics entries from Atari, or NeXT." Kit Kimes AT&T--Information Systems Labs ...ihnp4!ihlpe!kimes
juancho@utcsri.UUCP (10/05/87)
In article <2123@ihlpe.ATT.COM> kimes@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes) writes: > >The following short blurb is in the Raster Scan column of the 9/28/87 >issue of Electronic Engineering Times. > >decade ago. Before Comdex, Atari is expected to unveil a variant of the Mega >system that will become the company's Macintosh II challenger. Little is >known, save that it will likely sport the capability to show 1280 x 960 >pixel color and monochrome graphics. Resolution-wise, that outdoes the I ask forgiveness of atari for talking about another vapourvare product. It seems as though they were busy preparing for another release. I'LL BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT. John W. Buchanan Dynamic Graphics Project Computer Systems Research Institute (416) 978-6619 University of Toronto juancho@toronto.CSNET {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utdgp!juancho -- John W. Buchanan Dynamic Graphics Project Computer Systems Research Institute (416) 978-6619 University of Toronto juancho@toronto.CSNET {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utdgp!juancho