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UNIX!
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Las Vegas, Nevada, October 21, 1991 - Atari Computer Corporation announced
today the development and imminent availability of the Atari System V(ASV)
Developer's Kit. A pre-release version of the Developer's Kit will be
exhibited and demonstrated at the Comdex trade show on October 21-25 in
Las Vegas. The Developer's Kit is also available to selected software
developers interested in creating new of porting existing applications
onto the powerful, low-cost Atari TT030 personal workstation.
The ASV Developer's Kit contains a rich set of developer's tools
conforming to a wide range of industry standards based on Atari's
implementation of UNIX System V Release 4.0 for the Motorola 68000 series
processors and Atari's workstation graphical user interface. The
interface is based on the hardware-and operating system-independent
XWindows system standard and the Open Systems Foundation {OSF}/Motif
style. Thus, ASV applications take on a sculptured three-dimensional
Presentation Manager-like appearance. The Atari Style Guide is an
enhancement to the Motif style that sets standards for consistency among
ASV applications.
The tools that comprise this developer's kit will help key software
vendors to efficiently port their applications to ASV and take advantage
of the most cost-effective UNIX workstation platform, our TT030, said Sam
Tramiel, Atari Corporation CEO. "We're excited about the value that these
applications will add to the TT030 and about providing the UNIX
workstation market with a low-cost, high powered platform."
The Developer's Kit has three main tool groups {core tools, graphic
user interface tools, and language compilers and debuggers} and one group
of tools for networking services. The core tools include: AT&T System B
Release 4.0, BSD and XENIX Convergence, Virtual File Systems, Virtual
Memory Management, User-Controlled Process Scheduler, Device Driver
Interface/Device Kernel Interface, Internationalization, and Extensible
Linking Format {ELF}.
The Graphic User Interface tools include X Window System Release 11.4,
Motif User Interface, XFaceMaker2, and the WISh2 Desktop Manager. ASV
application designers can quickly create a Motif-compliant interface by
using XFaceMaker2 to paint an application screen from a palette of Motif
objects such as labels, push buttons, scroll bars, and message boxes.
With FACE, a built-in C-like programming language, the designer can easily
mold the behavior of the interface.
The programming tools include the efficient GNU C and C + + compilers
and the GNU gb debugger as well as the AT&T System V sdb debugger. The C
compiler is fully compatible with the System V ELF object format and with
the ANSI C Issue 5 extensions. The tools and styles in the ASV kit
assures the developer of compatibility, portability, and inter-operability
with other workstation vendors conforming to an open systems architecture
and such industry standards as POSIX, X/Open, XPG3, FIPS, NFS, X Window
System, and Motif.
The networking package adds the Network File System {NFS}, Remote File
Sharing {RFS}, TCP/IP {the DARPA protocols} and BSD Sockets.
The Atari System V Developer's Kit will be available in general
release form in the first quarter of 1992.
Atari Computer Corporation is dedicated to providing its customers
with the highest quality, most powerful, and most reliable computing
platforms and the best dollar-for-dollar computing value available
anywhere. Located in Sunnyvale, California, Atari Computer is widely
recognized as a worldwide leader in personal computing innovation.
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Attention!! Unix information from Randy (Intersect Software) on CIS...
Atari SYSTEM V Release 4 now shipping
Atari is now shipping UNIX V release 4 with X-Windows to Developers.
Minimum hardware requirements are 8 megs of RAM (4 megs of TT and 4
megs of ST RAM => requires the 2 meg ST ram upgrade and the 4 meg TT
ram upgrade to a STOCK TT030), a Monochrome (TTM195 monitor) and a 3
button mouse (included with the UNIX kit). 10 megs of TT ram are
recommended for speed.
Included in the basic kit is a 213 meg HD drive already formatted and
setup with UNIX V release 4, X-Windows, XFacemaker 2 (a SUPER
Resource Construction set for X-WINDOWS), FULL AT&T - BSD - XENIX
utilities, TCP/IP, and many more features. Looks like a FULL develo-
pers implementation.
Man pages included on the HD but paper documentation covers only the
XFacemaker 2, Face, Wish and Atari Style guide. Since SYS V X-windows
is a "STANDARD", documentation (suggested reading) is available off
the shelf.
Price for this software/hardware kit is $1850.00 (does not include
TT030)
From talking to the "UNIX" people at the Atari booth at COMDEX it's
done, shipping and only 4 known bugs...currently being fixed. It's
extensively tested and still undergoing tests in Germany. Plans are
for fast turn-around on bug reports (a complaint that my Intel UNIX
friends have is the slow bug fixes in the Intel UNIX arena).
My impressions-questions to the UNIX people at Atari...
<What about Color> - well, ahhh, yes we have plans about for Color
support, not on this version of the TT
<why> - well we felt that the additional color planes would slow down
the display.
<Is there another TT in the works> - I can't comment on that.
At the Developers Dinner, SAM T. mentioned the new TT but wouldn't
comment on features other than it was going to be a 030 or 040
machine with more color support. Also mentioned was a new machine
with a 68020 MPU (no further comment on that either).
My impressions of the Unix software on a TT030 with 12 megs of RAM
are that it's quite fast, at least when compared to a ISA 386 machine
Weak points still not addressed in this release: Can not read a TOS
floppy or a TOS HD partition. This is an obvious omission and I think
that we should see this "fixed" by the German Developers.
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