 the atari st is a home computer released by atari corporation in june 1985. development machines were distributed around may 1985 and it was available commercially 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 interface, it was jokingly referred to as the "jackintosh", a reference to jack tramiel. the atari st is part of the 16/32 bit generation of home computers, based on the motorola 68000 cpu, typically with 512&nbsp;kb of ram or more, a graphical user interface, and 3Â½" microfloppy disks as storage. it was similar to the apple macintosh, and its simple design allowed the st to precede the commodore amiga's commercial release by almost two months. the atari st was also the first personal computer to come with a bit-mapped color gui, using a version of digital research's gem released that february.a.n.a.l.o.g. tcs #1 001 03/20/85 dri ships gem: net.micro.atari: google groups. groups.google.com (1985-03-11). retrieved on 2013-04-22. the st was primarily a competitor to the macintosh, amiga, and in certain markets the acorn archimedes. wher
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