Atari TT030

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Atari TT030

Manufacturer	Atari Corporation
Type	Personal computer
Release date	1990; 34 years ago (1990)
Introductory price	US$2,995 (approximately US$7,000 today)
Discontinued	1993; 31 years ago (1993)
Operating system	Atari TOS 3.0x, ASV (Atari System V)
CPU	CPU: Motorola 68030 @ 32 MHz (system bus @ 16 MHz) FPU: Motorola 68882 @ 32 MHz
Memory	2/16 MB
Storage	1.44 MB (later version) or 720 KB (first TT version) 3½" floppy disk drive 50 MB hard drive
Display	VGA Monitor (analog RGB and Mono)
Graphics	TT Shifter; Six Display modes Color: 320×200 (16 colors), 320×480 (256 colors), 640×200 (4 colors), 640×480 (16 colors), palette of 4096 colors Duochrome: 640×400 (2 colors) Monochrome: 1280×960 mono TT high with ECL 19 in (483 mm) monitor[1]
Sound	Yamaha YM2149 + Stereo 8-bit PCM via DMA, same as in the STe
Input	Keyboard (detachable) 94 Key 2 button Mouse
Backward compatibility	Atari ST
Predecessor	Atari MEGA STE
Successor	Atari Falcon

The Atari TT030 is a member of the Atari ST family, released in 1990. It was originally intended to be a high-end Unix workstation, but Atari took two years to release a port of Unix SVR4 for the TT, which prevented the TT from ever being seriously considered in its intended market.

In 1992, the TT was replaced by the Atari Falcon, a low-cost consumer-oriented machine with greatly improved graphics and sound capability, but with a slower and severely bottle-necked CPU. The Falcon possesses only a fraction of the TT's raw CPU performance. Though well priced for a workstation machine, the TT's high cost kept it mostly out of reach of the existing Atari ST market until after the TT was discontinued and sold at discount.

The nascent open source movement eventually filled the void. Thanks to open hardware documentation, the Atari TT, along with the Amiga and Atari Falcon, were the first non-Intel machines to have Linux ported to them, though this work did not stabilize until after the TT had already been discontinued by Atari. By 1995, NetBSD had also been ported to the Atari TT.