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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Monday, 21 Dec 1992 23:54:47 CST
- From: Jason Kratz <U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <92356.235448U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.games.video
- Subject: Re: Rare Game (Atari I think)
- References: <92354.010600U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>
- <1992Dec20.235435.15714@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- <1992Dec21.141534.9292@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <BzMqLL.4uM@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- <1992Dec21.231255.18002@news.mentorg.com>
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- In article <1992Dec21.231255.18002@news.mentorg.com>, tclark@hptc.mentorg.com
- (Tony Clark) says:
- >
- >In article <BzMqLL.4uM@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, rusbasan@expert.cc.purdue.edu b
- >(Bo
- >Rusbasan) writes:
- >[Stuff Deleted]
- >
- >|>
- >|> So Atari had nothing to do with this from what I know. I would also
- >|> be very surprised to find out that Amiga or Commodore had anything
- >|> to do with the ST. Perhaps the source of your confusion is that
- >|> the ST and the Amiga used the same processor, and I believe some
- >|> other components of the compturs were alike or similar (maybe the
- >|> graphics chips).
- >|>
- >|> --
- >|> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- >|> / Bob Rusbasan | Dance to the tension \
- >|> / rusbasan@expert.cc.purdue.edu | of a world on edge \
- >|> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- >
- >If my memory serves me, didn't Jack Trammiel (sp?) come over to Atari
- >from Commodore? (Jack T is/was the CEO of Atari Corp.) And wasn't the ST's
- >operating system called TOS, which was rumoured to stand for Trammiel
- >Operating System?
- >
- I have had an Amiga for about 4 years now but I kept up with Amiga developments
- since it was released in 1985. I think the source of confusion for one of the
- previous posters (who said that he thought that the Amiga was originally an
- Atari development) is that the Amiga was designed by a team that included some
- of the guys who designed the old Atari 8-bit systems (like the original 800).
- The only chip that the Amiga and the ST had in common was the 68000 cpu. Like
- the Atari 800 the Amiga has custom chips in it to do graphics and sound.
- Jack Trammiel DID leave Commodore to move over to Atari.
-
- Jason
-