Talk:Atari TT030

AppleTalk" port probably wasn't
The "AppleTalk" port probably wasn't. It was an RS-422 serial port with basically the same pinout as Macintosh RS-422 ports. That does not automatically make it able to support LocalTalk, which depended on proprietary software and hardware support for an external synchronous clock.

On the TT (and perhaps the Falcon), the LAN port shares a UART with the 'Serial 2' DB9 RS-232 port. My notes say that pin 9 of Serial 2 is wired to "Synchronous Clock", but without looking at a schematic I'm not sure whether this was an input, or whether (if it was an input) it was routed to the LAN port. Either way, without the proprietary Apple -Talk software I don't think it's helpful to call it an "AppleTalk" port. It's a nice serial port though.

Misrepresentation of computer history??
The article says, "Multitasking was the big buzz word in 1990/1991, and this system was not designed to handle it. Multitasking was offered in 1993, with the release of Multi-TOS." By 1990, multitasking was already a 30-year-old invention, and it had been available on cheap personal computers since the 1980s thanks to XENIX. But this article seems to create the impression that multitasking was a new thing in 1990. OS/2 was certainly advertised as if it was the first ever multitasking operating system. Perhaps it was indeed a buzz word at the time, but additional explanation is required, perhaps in a new article on the topic. 216.23.105.20 22:32, 24 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Indeed, and AmigaOS 1.0 was multitasking in 1984. The article also consequently and wrongly uses Mb (megabit) instead of MB (megabyte).


 * Just because the scientists/college professors used $100,000 multitasking work stations in their labs, does not mean "joe smith" was using it at home. In 1990, the HOME MARKET still was doing single-task processing.  The most-popular home computer at that time was the Commodore 64, and it only did single processing.  In more affluent homes that could afford to upgrade to better computers, MS-DOS/Windows machines still did single-tasking, as did Macintosh, as did Atari.  The only HOME (key word) PC that featured multitasking was the Amiga.


 * The paragraph probably just needs to be reworded to clarify it's referring to the Home PC market. -  Theaveng (talk) 12:35, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Apple introduced MultiFinder standard with System 5 in Oct 1987, derived from Switcher dating from 1985. And Windows has always supported multitasking, going all the way back to Windows 1.0 in 1985. Atari was in fact well behind the curve in not introducing multitasking as standard until 1993.

Not sure where this all is coming from. "Not designed to handle it?" What do you mean, the hardware, or the software? The TT was clearly designed to be a Unix workstation, period. Why else have four serial ports? They're for running terminals. Upon release in 1990, it was a powerful, highly competitive workstation at a very good price (for a workstation, it was still a bit pricey for the average consumer). However GEMDOS was a weak rip-off of MS-DOS, single-tasking and completely incapable of networking, and thus not at all competitive with Unix. The fact Atari waited until 1992 to release Unix, and didn't support it for even a year, is what kept it from being seriously considered among the likes of Sun/HP/SGI/NeXT workstations. By 1992 Atari was pushing the Falcon and EOL-ing the TT. MultiTOS would not see the light of day until 1993, shortly before Atari left the computer business entirely. Incidentally by 1994, the Atari TT was being sold out at fire sale prices and ultimately enjoyed a small renaissance among unix enthusiasts in the mid-90's, as an affordable Linux/NetBSD workstation. I should rewrite this mess but not now... 24.23.210.81 (talk) 03:50, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

K deleted some of that speculative fluff. Bein' bold. 73.189.116.99 (talk) 03:48, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Atari TT headquarter

 * Atari TT headquarter —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.76.74.188 (talk) 07:55, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Units shipped
Is any ex atari employee aware of how many units sold or shipped? gioto (talk) 07:17, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

486 DX2
"(in the opposite direction) by makers of PCs with an Intel 80486DX2 CPU which most typically ran at 33Mhz on a 66Mhz bus."

This is flat out wrong... the PCI bus was indeed 33 Mhz and the CPUs ran at 66 (and later 3x or 100 Mhz). So it wasn't the opposite at all, but the same. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.132.10.250 (talk) 23:34, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

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