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- From: kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: TT Unix ASV
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.053147.11164@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 05:31:47 GMT
- References: <3576@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com> <s_tns7n.mats@netcom.com>
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- In article <s_tns7n.mats@netcom.com> mats@netcom.com (Mats Wichmann) writes:
- >
- >I'm kind of surprised nobody has posted anything to the net about this.
- >Atari have pretty much canned the ASV project. At any rate, the team
- >within Atari has been laid off and all development has stopped. There's
- >still some rumbling about a resurrection as a third-party product.
- >The O.S. porting was done outside the company anyway, so it doesn't seem
- >entirely impossible for that to happen, but I've no idea who has rights
- >to what and so on.
- >
- >As far as comments on stability, speed, etc. it's extremely stable at
- >this point. The speed is well, about what you'd expect from a 68030 in
- >these days when many workstations are running with processors with 10
- >times the performance or more (I spent some time working with an SGI
- >Indigo recently, which fits into the 10x category). On the other hand,
- >it's quite possible to get decent work done on it - I've worked on much
- >that is far worse.
-
-
- That is incorrect. Atari has not "pretty much canned the ASV
- project." The ASV development team was not "laid off" either.
- According to Bob Brodie, Director of Communications @ Atari Corp.,
- the ASV project has been completed and that's why the development
- team is now gone. In a sense, yes, "development has stopped" but
- only because it's done. He said Atari wouldn't be commercially
- releasing the full package until they have their 68040-based
- machine(s) ready but that a text-based (i.e. w/o XWindows, etc.)
- "student" version would be made available for existing machines.
-