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- Sierra was the code name for a 16-bit/32-bit personal computer designed by the Sunnyvale Research Lab (SRL) of Atari, Inc. starting around 1983. The design was one of several new 16-bit computer systems proposing to use a new chipset from Atari Corporate Research. The graphics portion consisted of a two chip system called "Silver and Gold", Gold generated the video output while Silver was a sprite processor that fed data to Gold. The chipset was collectively known as Rainbow, and the system is sometimes referred to by this name. The audio portion of the chipset consisted of a powerful sound synthesizer known as AMY. The CPU had not been chosen, but the Motorola 68000, National Semiconductor 32016 and Intel 286 were being considered. Several proposed operating systems were considered including VisiCorps Visi On and Atari's own internal OS code-named "Snowcap". Sierra was bogged down since its inception through a committee process that never could come to a consensus on the design specifications. A second project, , ran in parallel, designing an upscale workstation machine running either BSD Unix or CP/M-68k. Atari management concluded they had no way to sell into the business market, redirecting Gaza engineers to a new low-cost machine based on the Amiga chipset, "Mickey". All of these systems were still incomplete when the company was purchased by Jack Tramiel in July 1984 and the majority of the staff was laid off. Only the synthesizer caught the interest of Tramel Technology lead engineer Shiraz Shivji and the rest of the projects disappeared. (en)
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- The only known image of the Sierra mock-up. It looks similar to the Amiga 1000 but has an attached keyboard and an Atari-style joystick port can be seen on the left. (en)
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- Prototype - Project Cancelled (en)
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- Sierra was the code name for a 16-bit/32-bit personal computer designed by the Sunnyvale Research Lab (SRL) of Atari, Inc. starting around 1983. The design was one of several new 16-bit computer systems proposing to use a new chipset from Atari Corporate Research. (en)
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