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- From: jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young)
- Subject: Atari Falcon Re: Amiga 4000
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.201542.2212@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <zxmgn01.712006888@mailserv> <14posbINN47q@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 20:15:42 GMT
- Lines: 76
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- In article <14posbINN47q@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> hans@castlerock.East.Sun.COM writes:
- >
- > Can you give us some insights on the specs of this (Falcon) machine?
- >
- >
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- This is from French developer. Now other developer said very FAST '040
- is possible for very cheap price in Atari Falcon!! Everyone will find
- out very soon.. Falcon '030 will have A600 for competition but it
- can go TWICE faster than A3000!
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- Other news from England said Falcons might have 16 million colors too!
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- >From: elendir@quasar.enst.fr (Vincent Habchi)
- Keywords: Specifications from Atari
- Message-ID: <2041@quasar.enst.fr>
- Organization: Telecom-Paris, France
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- Atari Falcon '030
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- CPU : 68030 @ 16-33 MHz. (upgrade to 50 MHz)
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- FPU optional (68882 @ 16-50 MHz).
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- RAM : 1, 4 or 14 Mb, operating in page mode.
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- (RAMcards: 512 Kb - 5 Mb)
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- ROM : 512 Kb, plus 128 Ko in the cartridge port.
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- DSP 56001 @ 32 MHz (?), 32 Kwords (96 Kb) of 0 wait state private RAM.
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- DSP connector for modems, voice mail, direct-to-disk, JPEG/MPEG codecs, ...
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- Expansion bus : 386 slot, DMA processor slot, optional processor socket.
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- SVGA rez : 320x200, 640x480, 800x600 in 256 or 65536 colors amongst 262144.
- (upgrade to 1200x900)
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- External video sync for genlocks, 15 bit video overlay mode for video titling.
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- Programmable overscan.
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- Hardware scrolling and BLITTER coprocessors.
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- 10 independants, 16 bit digital audio channels, up to 50 kHz sampling rate.
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- Stereo 16 bit DMA output through a 1-bit DAC, 80 times oversampling.
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- Stereo 8 bit DMA input.
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- RASCAL (TM) and SDMA sound coprocessors.
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- SCSI-2 port with internal DMA.
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- LAN, RS 232C, Video, bi-directionnal parallel port suitable for scanners.
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- MIDI in and out, jack connectors for sound.
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- 2 joystick ports, 2 enhanced digital/analog controller ports.
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- 1.44 Mb floppy, optionnal IDE Hard-disk, transfer rate 1 Mb/sec.
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- MultiTOS (preemptive multitasking OS with memory protection, Unix system
- call compatible with IPC pipes/shared memory/process spawning) included
- in ROM and floppy disk. MultiTOS now allows easy porting of Unix
- programs.
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- Lastly retail price of $700-900.
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