Editing Atari ST (section)

===Tramel Technologies===
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At [[Commodore International]] an argument involving Commodore's chairman (and largest shareholder) [[Irving Gould]] and Commodore founder [[Jack Tramiel]] ensued over Tramiel's desire for his sons to take more active executive roles within Commodore.  The argument resulted in Tramiel's immediate departure from Commodore in January 1984.

Tramiel immediately formed a holding company, '''Tramel Technologies, Ltd.''', and began to visit various US computer companies with the intention of purchasing a company.  Tramiel visited Mindset (run by Roger Badersher, former head of Atari's Computer Division) and Amiga where Tramiel told Amiga staff that he was very interested in the chipset, but not the staff.  Tramiel set his chief engineer - Shiraz Shivji the task of developing a new low-cost, high-end computer system.  The original design considered using the [[NS32032]], but in talks, National Semiconductor couldn't supply the chip in the numbers or price that the project required.  In retrospect this proved to be fortunate as a prototype built on the NS32032 benchmarked slower than the 16/32-bit 68000.

The project, codenamed "RBP" for 'Rock Bottom Price', began to form between April and July 1984 into a design that was almost identical to the ST that eventually shipped.  The design was a combination of custom chips and commonly available parts in a highly integrated single-board design, fully equipped with standard and custom ports.