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Atari ATW 800
 

Photo courtesy of Thierry Schembri of The Museum of Dead, Gone and Obsolete Computers

The Atari Transputer Workstation 800, also known as the ABAQ, was first shown at the 1987 Comdex. The ATW 800 was designed for parallel processing, with the ability to connect up to 16 transputers to work in unison. The Transputer could be housed on a card in the tower shown on the left, with the ability to add additional cards as necessary, or as an add-on connected to an Atari Mega STf via the expansion bus.    The operating system was Helios, which was a Unix derivative designed for parallel data processing. Helios was designed by the same company that made the Amiga operating system. It is speculated that only 350 of these powerful machines were ever built.    The basic architecture of the ATW 800 was built around the INMOS T-800 RISC CPU. It was capable of displaying up to 16.7 million colors.

For more information about the ATW800, please visit The totally unofficial ATW800 page

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