In 1992, the TT was replaced by the Atari Falcon, a low-cost consumer-oriented machine with greatly improved graphics and sound capability, but with a slower and severely bottle-necked CPU.

Atari Corporation realized that to remain competitive as a computer manufacturer, they needed to begin taking steps to exploit the power offered by more advanced processors in the Motorola 68000 series.

The original specifications for the TT's clock speed was 16 MHz, which was selected to maintain backward compatibility.

[5] In 1993, Atari Corp.'s exit from the computer business marked the end of the TT, as well as the entire ST family.

The TT features a number of devices that had previously been unavailable for Atari Corp. systems.

One device that is left out is the BLiTTER graphics chip, which first appeared in the Atari Mega ST systems four to five years earlier.

[8]: B-1  To support application development, the Atari System V software distribution included a library, AtariLib, to facilitate compliance with the Atari Style Guide, along with XFaceMaker 2, a graphical user interface builder for OSF/Motif,[9] intended to assist in porting GEM-based applications.

[8] Initially, UniSoft UniPlus+ V Release 3.1 formed the basis of the Unix product on the TT.

[11] All TTs are made up of both custom and commercial chips: The (at least) two versions of the TT can be distinguished by: