We chat to Youtuber Ctrl-Alt-Rees about classic Atari machines like the ST, Falcon and Jaguar, and learn some lesser-known stories about unreleased systems like the Atari Sparrow and Panther.
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Midnight Commander is for Unix type OSes (including Linux). What Dan is thinking of is Norton Commander which is for DOS.
You've got it wrong about Falcon.
It was HEAVILLY crippled machine - it had just 16-bit data bus.
IMO: Only real Atari for me was Atari ST.
IT was done about the right way only because Americans didn't have the time to ruin it with all the bells and whistles. SO it was done basically as a launchpad for 68000 - whole machine is a thin wrapper around the CPU, so it mostly exposes what 68000 can do without waitstates.
Had successors been done in this way - economic machine as a wrapper around powerful CPU, they'd have the market for that.
But , just like Commodore, they had to faff around with useless cruft ( TT, Falcon) or cosmetic changes ( STe etc).