Anniversary: The Atari ST, Everyone's Second Favourite 16-bit Home Computer, Turns 40 (www.timeextension.com)

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It was based on the same 16-bit CPU, the 68000, as the Amiga (obviously the first) and the ST. (Not to mention the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive, the NeXT and the pre-SPARC Sun workstations, but none of those were “home computers”.)

The fate of a random 68000 fresh out of the factory was highly variable, in a way that a random Intel x86 CPUs wasn’t (it’d almost certainly end up running MS-DOS/Windows).

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