RE: Atari Unix

2015-10-18 Thread ethan
I have a TT030 and actually was just looking at it last night. It has a VME slot (as they call it) that has a dual serial port board installed. I think it has a modem port. That is an AppleTalk port. Nope. My TT030 has 2 modem ports (RS232), then 2 more serial ports via VME card. The appletalk

Monochrome ECL monitors, circa 1990 - was Re: Atari Unix

2015-10-18 Thread Toby Thain
On 2015-10-18 11:16 AM, Stefan Skoglund (lokal användare) wrote: lör 2015-10-17 klockan 10:01 -0400 skrev et...@757.org: I was always under the impression that a few of them made it out there? I have a TT030 and actually was just looking at it last night. It has a VME slot (as they call it) th

Re: Atari Unix

2015-10-18 Thread Stefan Skoglund (lokal
sön 2015-10-18 klockan 17:16 +0200 skrev Stefan Skoglund (lokal användare): > The specs makes me think that it is a bit more powerfull than a Sun > 3/80 (and 280 too.) > The ECL monitor reminds me about Sun Sun2/3/4:era bwtwo. > > About the same resolution. > > Remark: how much did a 1280x1024 ca

Re: Atari Unix

2015-10-18 Thread Stefan Skoglund (lokal användare)
lör 2015-10-17 klockan 10:01 -0400 skrev et...@757.org: > I was always under the impression that a few of them made it out > there? > > I have a TT030 and actually was just looking at it last night. It has > a > VME slot (as they call it) that has a dual serial port board > installed. I > think

Re: Atari Unix

2015-10-17 Thread Plamen Mihaylov
ussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > > > Subject: Re: Atari Unix > > > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 03:26:53PM +0100, Dave G4UGM wrote: > > > The "real SCSI" is still somewhat broken and very temperamental. > > > > As someone who used to mak

RE: Atari Unix

2015-10-17 Thread Dave Wade
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mark > Linimon > Sent: 17 October 2015 17:30 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: Atari Unix > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 03:26:53PM +0100

Re: Atari Unix

2015-10-17 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 03:26:53PM +0100, Dave G4UGM wrote: > The "real SCSI" is still somewhat broken and very temperamental. As someone who used to make a living working on VMEbus equipment ... ... if a machine has a VMEbus slot, that description usually applies. In particular, never assume tha

RE: Atari Unix

2015-10-17 Thread Dave G4UGM
-Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Liam > Proven > Sent: 17 October 2015 15:19 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: Atari Unix > > On 17 October 2015 at 16:01, wrote: &g

Re: Atari Unix

2015-10-17 Thread Liam Proven
rossed wires here. The TT shipped, sure. It’s Atari UNIX that I /think/ did not. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)

Re: Atari Unix

2015-10-17 Thread Liam Proven
On 17 October 2015 at 15:06, Dave G4UGM wrote: > Perhaps also "too expensive"? AIUI Atari UNIX never shipped as a product, so that’s academic; nobody knows what they would have charged. I’m not sure about this, though. But the “big 3” alternative home computer platforms of the 1980

Re: Atari Unix

2015-10-17 Thread ethan
Apparently efforts are underway to get this unreleased product working. I believe it was aimed at the TT030 desktop "workstation" model of the ST family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_TT030 Atari did licence UNIX™ and got a really good deal — $10 a seat! http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/18/the-

RE: Atari Unix

2015-10-17 Thread Dave G4UGM
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Liam > Proven > Sent: 17 October 2015 13:05 > To: Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Atari Unix > > Apparently efforts are underway to get this unreleased

Atari Unix

2015-10-17 Thread Liam Proven
Apparently efforts are underway to get this unreleased product working. I believe it was aimed at the TT030 desktop "workstation" model of the ST family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_TT030 Atari did licence UNIX™ and got a really good deal — $10 a seat! http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/1