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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Atari ST magazines, Atari ST software, Microsoft Word, Graphical Environment Manager, WordPerfect, MetaComCo, Lattice C, Steinberg Cubase, General Instrument AY-3-8910, Atari TT030, Atari Falcon, GFA BASIC, Atari TOS, The One, STOS BASIC, Superbase database, Contiki, Music Construction Set, MiNT, MagiC, Atari Coldfire Project, Atari ST BASIC, Microsoft Write, Atari MEGA STE, Page 6, Spectre GCR, Cyber Studio, Atari User, SMSQ/E, ST Action, ST/Amiga Format, ST Format, WordPerfect 4.1, NeoChrome, ST BOOK, Trip-a-Tron, Row of bombs, STellar Chaos, Atari STacy, Calamus, Kelstar, ST Review, Atari ST User, Dual format, 1st Word/1st Word Plus, STart Magazine, John Barnes European Football, Timeworks Publisher, Replay Professional, Satandisk, EmuTOS, Megamax C, Fleet Street Publisher, Resource construction set, SpareMiNT, SNDH, Pro-24. Excerpt: The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two," which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals. Due to its graphical user inferface, it was known as the "Jackintosh," a reference to Jack Tramiel. The ST was later superseded by the Atari TT and Falcon computers. The Atari ST was part of the 16/32 bit generation of home computers, based on the Motorola 68000 CPU, with 512 KB of RAM or more, and 31/2" double-sided double-density floppy disks as storage (nominally 720 KB). It was similar to other contemporary machines which used the Motorola 68000, the Apple Macintosh and the Commodore Amiga. Preceding the Amiga's commercial release by almost two months, the Atari ST was the first computer to come with a fully bit-mapped color GUI, using a version of Digital Research's GEM released that February. The .
