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The Atari ST is a microcomputer developed by Atari Corporation in the mid 1980's. It was announced in January of 1985, and released June of that year. It runs on the Motorola 68000 CPU. The "ST" stands for sixteen/thirty-two, in reference to the 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals of the 68000 chip. It ran Digital Research's GEM (Graphical Environment Manager) on Atari's proprietary TOS (The Operating System).
 
The Atari ST is a microcomputer developed by Atari Corporation in the mid 1980's. It was announced in January of 1985, and released June of that year. It runs on the Motorola 68000 CPU. The "ST" stands for sixteen/thirty-two, in reference to the 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals of the 68000 chip. It ran Digital Research's GEM (Graphical Environment Manager) on Atari's proprietary TOS (The Operating System).
  
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The computer primarily competed with the Macintosh and the Amiga in most markets. Because of it's fast CPU and high-resolution display (when displaying in monochrome)it gained a strong foothold in the business and CAD fields. It was (and still is) also a popular computer in the music industry as it was one of the first affordable home computers to include a MIDI port. A wide variety of music composition programs also came to be written for it. As a result of the ease of use and large software library, the ST is still occasionally used in music production today. In addition to its uses in business and CAD as well as music, it is also a competent computer for playing games on. Its graphical capabilities are roughly comparable to the other computers of the time, although slightly lower. The fast CPU somewhat off-sets the limited graphical capabilities.
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Revision as of 18:38, 13 March 2015

The Atari ST is a microcomputer developed by Atari Corporation in the mid 1980's. It was announced in January of 1985, and released June of that year. It runs on the Motorola 68000 CPU. The "ST" stands for sixteen/thirty-two, in reference to the 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals of the 68000 chip. It ran Digital Research's GEM (Graphical Environment Manager) on Atari's proprietary TOS (The Operating System).

The computer primarily competed with the Macintosh and the Amiga in most markets. Because of it's fast CPU and high-resolution display (when displaying in monochrome)it gained a strong foothold in the business and CAD fields. It was (and still is) also a popular computer in the music industry as it was one of the first affordable home computers to include a MIDI port. A wide variety of music composition programs also came to be written for it. As a result of the ease of use and large software library, the ST is still occasionally used in music production today. In addition to its uses in business and CAD as well as music, it is also a competent computer for playing games on. Its graphical capabilities are roughly comparable to the other computers of the time, although slightly lower. The fast CPU somewhat off-sets the limited graphical capabilities.

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