Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site ccvaxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!tucker From: tucker@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: Re: New Atari machines (home UNIX at Message-ID: <56600002@ccvaxa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 10:08:00 EST Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.56600002 Posted: Wed Feb 6 10:08:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 02:07:45 EST References: <87@mot.UUCP> Lines: 12 Nf-ID: #R:mot:-8700:ccvaxa:56600002:000:694 Nf-From: ccvaxa!tucker Feb 6 09:08:00 1985 On the point of Atari designing there own Video chips for the ST, I don't think so. The specs given for the ST machine look exactly like those for Motorola's new RMS/X color video controller chip set. A nice chip set that has everything one could want for a personal computer. The only question of mine is availability. The chip set isn't going to be available in production numbers for a few months still at least I think. The same for the floppy/harddisk interface that is supposed to come standard. Motorola has a new VLSI chip set designed to handle that too. All these chips were designed with the 68000 in mind. Now if someone like Atari would only use them for something...