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The following "vapourware" announcements are from Znet ST Report
and ST Informer. There must be a grain of truth in there somewhere. - Ed]
ATARI CD ROM
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According to ST Format, the English magazine, Atari will market an add
on CD-I drive for the entire ST range. The new CD ROM to supercede
Atari's CDAR will be able to transfer data at twice the speed of the
fastest hard disk drive - read speed 170 Kbytes per second. With
12mm single sided optical disks, and 650 Mbytes capacity the CD-I will
play conventional audio CD's, as well as video. The encoding logorithm
used is claimed to surpass S-VHS, at 25 to 30 frames per second.
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In a recent interview to ST Format, Sam Tramiel reveals some very
interesting tidbits:
- We will have a new joystick (analog Joy)
- The AJAX processor will handle 2 MB floppy drives
- A new TT with a 68040 will appear early in 1992
- The multitasking version of TOS will be available in MARCH 92
-- One Gigabit Chip Technology Now Available
NIT claims to be the first in the industry to have developed the fun-
damental technology that can be used to create a 1 gigabit (1 billion
bit) memory chip. NTT was also the first to have established the
technology to make a 16-megabit and a 64-megabit chip.
Comdex information - from Randy Bush (Intersect Software) on CIS...
COMDEX NEWS
Atari is releasing (SOON <grin>) a CDROM external drive. I believe
them this time as it's a CHINON drive in an Atari case/power supply.
They don't even have an ASCSI interface on the back, it's straight
SCSI.
This means that they don't have to do anything that just repackage
the SCSI CHINON drive. This has benefits that Atari dealers will soon
realize. It's the BEST (350 MS), least expensive external CDROM drive
available and will work with a PC or MAC as well as straight out of
the box with a TT030 or Mega STE. ALL new Atari machines will have
SCSI ports on them, ASCSI is being phased out as NON-PROFESSIONAL.
Price for the CD-ROM is $385.00 RETAIL!!!!!!!******!!!!!!
Third parties are already gearing up to produce a ASCI to SCSI box
for this CD-ROM drive (for those of you with ASCSI only ports.)
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-- Apple & IBM to Cooperate and Compete
Apple and IBM, two long-term rivals, this week officially outlined five
future joint ventures.
First, the Taligent's operating system will be able to run applications
written for IBM's OS/2 and AIX as well as Apple's System 7.
Second, Kaleida will be a joint venture that will promote standards for
multimedia. Engineers from Apple and IBM will be seconded to Kaleida to
work on multimedia development. Kaleida will then make its technology
available to other vendors.
Third, Power PC is a new PC hardware architecture based on IBM's RISC
System/6000 technology. IBM and Motorola will work together to develop
and build the Power PC chips, then Motorola will offer these chips to
other vendors, while both IBM and Apple will build systems around them.
Fourth is PowerOpen, a Unix-based operating system that will run on
Power PC-based systems. Power Open will bring together Apple's A/UX
version of Unix and IBM's AIX.
Fifth will be an effort to simplify networking between Apple and IBM
systems. The two companies will license each other's networking tech-
nologies (Apple's AppleTalk and IBM's Token Ring) and develop products
to help their PCs work together.
-- Toshiba and IBM Japan Develope Active Matrix LCD
IBM Japan and Toshiba Corp. have jointly developed a 13.8" active matrix
liquid crystal display (LCD) for engineering workstations. Active matrix
LCDs achieve a high picture resolution on a flat screen by using thin
film transistors (TFTs) to switch on and off individual points of light.
The new displays will use a total of over three million TFTs for over
one million points of light.
-- Intel Faces New Challenge
Chips & Technologies introduced seven microprocessors in a direct chal-
lenge to industry leader Intel Corp in an attempt to make money after a
loss of $9.6 million in fiscal year 1991, ended June 30.
Unlike Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which introduced an Intel 386 chip
clone last April, the Chips & Technologies microprocessor doesn't dup-
licate Intel's design. The company is said to have spent four years and
$50 million developing its own Intel-compatible architecture.