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Also: The Atari ST was often referred to as "The Jackintosh" after both Jack Tramiel and the Macintosh it copied much from....
by beagle3 8y ago
Also: The Atari ST was often referred to as "The Jackintosh" after both Jack Tramiel and the Macintosh it copied much from....
- cmrdporcupine 8y agoYep, though if you look at the history of GEM and that it was in part born through a Xerox Star lineage, there's much in there that predates the Macintosh. Here Lee Jay Lorenzen is showing off his prototype while at Xerox in 1982, before he joined Digital Research. Before the Lisa or Macintosh were released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMBGRZftS30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMBGRZftS30 Think of an Atari ST as a Commodore 64 (Tramiels and Shiraz Shivji worked on both) in a roadside collision with a Macintosh (GUI) and CP/M machine (GEMDOS).