CS112170@YUSOL.BITNET.UUCP (02/05/87)
I've heard various things on the new ST and 32-bit Unix based(??) TT. Can anyone shed any accurate light on this topic? Namely: - release dates - operating system - developer's software for the TT ? - miscellaneous specifications on both machines (such as amt of RAM, open or closed architecture or both(?), attached/detached keyboard, drive info (if it's changed)) - anything else you can tell us This may be a repetitive question, and if it is, I apologize. I've lost contact with the net for some months now. Any information would be greatly appreciated...to the net, or directly. Thanks in Advance Dave Pullara CS112170@YUSOL.BITNET
jafischer@watrose.UUCP (02/09/87)
Okay, the info below is from what I've gleaned from various places, Compuserve and a recent dealers' meeting among them. >I've heard various things on the new ST and 32-bit Unix based(??) TT. > >Can anyone shed any accurate light on this topic? Namely: > >- release dates April seems to be the release date commonly given for the Mega ST's, although I got the impression from the dealers' mtng that May or June may be more likely. They didn't say this (in fact they were saying April, I think), but going from their track record and my impressions, I'm skeptical. >- operating system The 'EST:' TOS/GEMDOS, I believe. (After all, it's just going to be an ST with improved graphics, from everything I've ever heard of it, going way back to about October '85 -- yes, they were talking about an EST then, and saying maybe early '86!). The 'TT:' definitely UNIX system V. -Straight from the mouth of someone from Atari Canada at the mtng. One of the delays right now is the graphic environment (not GEM) they're planting on top of it. Sounds neat. >- miscellaneous specifications on both machines (such as amt of RAM, > open or closed architecture or both(?), attached/detached keyboard, > drive info (if it's changed)) It really looks like they're going back to the 'black box' notion for the TT (please, someone from Atari, correct me if I'm wrong. This is what I was told). By black box I mean an external 'add-on' somewhat like the IBM add-on will be. I think this could cripple the thing (does this mean you'd have to buy a new monitor to get new resolutions?). But I suppose it creates a tidy solution to the possible problem of internal competition between ST & TT. Although, given the different price range / target market, I really don't see a problem there. Maybe they'll go both ways, and offer the TT both as a black box and as a stand-alone unit. I like the idea I read in Analog awhile back, with the TT as a stand-alone and up to 12 ST's as terminals. There wasn't any clear idea given about release dates for the EST or the TT. I don't know, though; with the Mega's (I hate that name) coming out in spring, soon to be followed by the Atari PC about a month later, and the ST's IBM add-on some time after that (that's pretty low priority in relation to everything else, since they're isn't _that_ much of a market foreseen for it), I wouldn't expect the EST or the TT anytime before summer. -- - Jonathan Fischer (jafischer@watrose) or: watmath!watrose!jafischer or: jafischer%watrose@waterloo.csnet or: jafischer%watrose@waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
Patrick@ark.UUCP (02/10/87)
In article <8448@watrose.UUCP> jafischer@watrose.UUCP (Jonathan Fischer) writes: > > April seems to be the release date commonly given for the Mega ST's, >although I got the impression from the dealers' mtng that May or June may be >more likely. They didn't say this (in fact they were saying April, I think), >but going from their track record and my impressions, I'm skeptical. > > The Hannover Messe, starting March 4, is named by my sources (heavy talk, eh? :) ) as the introduction place for a new ST (the EST) and the Atari AT-clone. Europe is considered more and more as a place to introduce the new stuff (Compaq 386 in Nice, Commodore 2500 and 500 in Spain [I believe], Atari 520 ST at the Hannover Messe).