#: 16241 S1/General Interest
    17-Aug-92  03:21:02
Sb: #16236-Falcon
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: John Eng 72520,520 (X)

Hi John!

Yep, we'll be at Atlanta as far as I know.  Even thinking about getting a
booth... at $35 apiece, heck I could use it to sell off my old gear :-)

Gerry told me about Bruce getting married to his, what? high school sweetheart?
I'm jealous that he could manage to elope in Hawaii, too.

Yes, I saw that Atari Falcon conference transcript.  Pretty interesting.

For lurkers, Atari says they'll be bringing out a new machine, supposedly
reaching the US in late October (if you know Atari, that means Christmas at the
earliest :-)   The main features are:  16MHz 68030, optional FPU, 1,4 or 14 MB
of RAM, Motorola 56001 DSP chip, SVGA-ish+ graphics, stereo sound input and
output, MIDI, SCSI, etc.  Price to be announced in a few days. The interesting
portion of the transcript was:

  Q: Will there be a port of Microware's OS-9 Operating system for
     the Falcon030?
  Sam: We're in regular contact with Microware, and OS/9 works for
     the most part just fine under the Atari Falcon030.

Big question: what will a version of OS-9 cost, and who will sell it?