17 Oct
2015
17 Oct
'15
7:01 a.m.
Apparently efforts are underway to get this unreleased
product working.
I believe it was aimed at the TT030 desktop "workstation" model of the
ST family:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_TT030
Atari did licence UNIX? and got a really good deal ? $10 a seat!
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/18/the-atari-st-could-have-run-unix/
? But the original 68000 version couldn't hack it. No MMU.
http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1383
The product did eventually exist:
http://www.atariunix.com/
But as ever it was too little, too late.
I was always under the impression that a few of them made it out there?
I have a TT030 and actually was just looking at it last night. It has a
VME slot (as they call it) that has a dual serial port board installed. I
think it has a modem port. I know it's not compatible with normal ST
softwar,e has VGA, does not use a ps2 keyboard but uses an ST keyboard,
and has real SCSI versus ACSI!
Strange computers. Doesn't look quite as cool as the Mega 2/4 IMHO but
still interesting!
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Ethan O'Toole