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I've just had a chat with Atari UK, and they are selling
a developers TT UNIX systems. These have the following
hardware spec. being a typical noter I've left the Atari
letter at home so I'll post the software spec. tomorrow.
A TT UNIX box is :
A TT030, with 16mb memory,
340mb Harddisk, 300mb for unix, 40mb for TOS V?
19" Monochrome monitor.
Now the price for this fully installed with the UNIX operating system
is #2999.99. Now I've looked at just about every different combination
of different PC/UNIX's and for the same system the Atari rises above
all the others in price. I don't know about preformance, but then if
you only want it for home use, if it's not a megamip machine who cares
at that price.
At the moment it's only available from Atari, but will be released any
day now. The developers is only monochrome, but a colour version will
be ready ??? once general release has come about. Price variances
will also occur on release ???.
At whats even better you don't have to chuck out all that Atari
software, as the thing will run in TOS or UNIX. WOW.
Good Bye from a desparetly saving but getting married in two weeks
Atarian.
Nick
At last Atari will be in the running.
ps.
Also if you already have a TT then you can buy an upgrade kit, but I'll
post all these details tomorrow.
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After making a enormous amount of phone calls and hassling people
at Atari I managed to get to talk with their one and only one UNIX
bod in the UK. Who I will say was very helpful (same their weren't
more) he sent the information below, and said that the UNIX system
is only available from Atari until general release in the summer ?
I've copied the below without premission and no doubt included a
multitude of spelling mistakes. And all the usual disclaimers apply.
The Atari System V (ASV) developers kit conatains a rich set of
developers tools conforming to a wide range of industry standards. The
foundation is AT&Ts UNIX System V release 4.0 for the Motorola 68030/40
series of processors. The X Window System standard graphical user
interfaceis used offering the developer the ability to work with
clients running on other machines or to share clients with others on a
network.
To provide the most intuitive interface available and to be consistent
with industry standards, Atari has adopted OSF/Motif. The development
tool XFaceMaker enables designers of ASV applications to quickly create
OSF/Motif conformant application frontends. The desinger can paint an
application screen from a palete of OSF/Motif objects such as label,
push buttons, scroll bars and message boxes and then see how it looks
and feels within XfaceMaker.
In addition to the rich set of development tools standard with System
V, the efficient GNU C and C++ compliers and the GNU debugger, are all
includecd in the ASV Developers Kit. The C compiler is fully compatible
with the System V ELF object format anf wit the ANSI C issue 5
extensions.
The Atari Style Guide descrobing OSF/Motif style is part of the
developers kit. By following the standards set in this guide,
developers are assured of creating applications with the interface
consistent with other ASV applications.
Developers using the ASV kit are assured of maintaining compatability,
portability and interoperability with other workstation vendors
conforming to open systems architecture and technical workstation
industry standards, such as POSIX, X/OPEN XPG3, FIPS, NFS, X Window
System and Motif.
The TT030 ASV developers workstation comes with 18mb of RAM, a 340mb
Hard Disk and a TTM195 monitor. Connectivity with workstation networks
is simple with the addition of an Atari VME/Ethernet Card.
Specifications.
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Hardware
TT030, 32MHz MC68030/MC68882, 18mb RAM, 340 Mb Hard Disk, 3 Button
mouse and a TTM195 19" monichrome monitor. Atari VME/Ethernet Card
(Optional)
Software
AT&T UNIX System V Release 4.0
BSD and XENIX Convergence, Virtual File Systems (VFS), Virtual Memory
Management, (supporting Memory Mapped Files), User-Controlled Process
Scheduler, Device Driver Interface (DDI), Device Kernal Interface
(DKI), Internationalization, Extendable Linking Format (ELF), Network
File System (NFS), Remote File Sharing (RFS), TCP/IP (the DARPA
protocols), BSD Sockets.
Graphical User Interface
X Window System Release 11.4, OSF/Motif User Inteface (Version 1.12),
XfaceMaker, WisH2 Desktop Manager.
Language Compilers and Debuggers
FSF GNU C complier (version 1.39), FSF GNU C++ Compiler (version 1.39),
FSF GNU gdb debugger (version 1.39), AT&T System V SDB debugger.
Documentation
Atari Style Guide, Atari System V Developer's Guide, NSL WisH2 Users
Guide, NSL Wx2 Users Guide, NSL XFaceMaker 2 Users Guide, AT&T UNIX
System Release 4 Product Overview and Master Index.
Price List
Complete system 2999.99 pounds
Atari Ethernet (VME) Card 249.99 pounds
Upgrades
1 Hard Disk with software, mouse and
developer documentation 1349.99 pounds
2 16mb of RAM and as 1 1999.99 pounds
3 Monochrome Monitor and as 1 1799.99 pounds
4 1, 2, and 3 2399.99 pounds
Notes
1. All prices are exclusive of VAT and are correct as of the 8th May
1992
2. If ypu already have a TT and wish to upgrade ypu will need to
return your TT so that we can install the hard disk and possibly modify
the TT to run UNIX.
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