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When Atari shipped Unix: 1992's Atari System V (lunduke.substack.com)
23 points by rbanffy on July 13, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



$2,995 [1] for the TT030.

In the boot screen for "Atari System V", as the manual called it, the operating system's kernel identified itself as "UniSoft UNIX (R) System V Release 4.0. [1]

Atari UNIX development stopped by the end of 1992. I feel like all this thing needed was really slick external design and a rack mount option. Many love the pizza box, but I think AIO and mini tower designs can be aesthetically superior. This machine is for all intents and purposes superior to Apple's SE/30 (in everything but max RAM) for about half or even a third of the price. But the SE/30 has that humble appliance aesthetic going for it. The TT/x design makes it appear to be modular, but it probably isn't, so, faux modular, while the SE/30 appears to not be configurable, but is very much so.

I don't think serious UNIX users would have considered either Atari System V or Apple A/UX for the home UNIX station; instead, Digital, HP, Sun, NeXT or other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_TT030




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