The Atari ATW800 "Transputer"
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", 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.