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- From: troy@bluemoon.rn.com (Troy Fridley)
- Subject: Re: Atari Falcon Re: Amiga 4000
- Message-ID: <P5XNoB3w165w@bluemoon.rn.com>
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- Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
- References: <1992Jul25.201542.2212@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 03:46:48 EDT
- Lines: 91
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- jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young) writes:
-
- > In article <14posbINN47q@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> hans@castlerock.East.Sun.COM
- > >
- > > Can you give us some insights on the specs of this (Falcon) machine?
- > >
- > >
- >
- > 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!
- >
- > Other news from England said Falcons might have 16 million colors too!
- >
- >
- > >From: elendir@quasar.enst.fr (Vincent Habchi)
- > Keywords: Specifications from Atari
- > Message-ID: <2041@quasar.enst.fr>
- > Organization: Telecom-Paris, France
- >
- > Atari Falcon '030
- >
- > CPU : 68030 @ 16-33 MHz. (upgrade to 50 MHz)
- >
- > FPU optional (68882 @ 16-50 MHz).
- >
- > RAM : 1, 4 or 14 Mb, operating in page mode.
- >
- > (RAMcards: 512 Kb - 5 Mb)
- >
- > ROM : 512 Kb, plus 128 Ko in the cartridge port.
- >
- > DSP 56001 @ 32 MHz (?), 32 Kwords (96 Kb) of 0 wait state private RAM.
- >
- > DSP connector for modems, voice mail, direct-to-disk, JPEG/MPEG codecs, ...
- >
- > Expansion bus : 386 slot, DMA processor slot, optional processor socket.
- >
- > SVGA rez : 320x200, 640x480, 800x600 in 256 or 65536 colors amongst 262144.
- > (upgrade to 1200x900)
- >
- > External video sync for genlocks, 15 bit video overlay mode for video titlin
- >
- > Programmable overscan.
- >
- > Hardware scrolling and BLITTER coprocessors.
- >
- > 10 independants, 16 bit digital audio channels, up to 50 kHz sampling rate.
- >
- > Stereo 16 bit DMA output through a 1-bit DAC, 80 times oversampling.
- >
- > Stereo 8 bit DMA input.
- >
- > RASCAL (TM) and SDMA sound coprocessors.
- >
- > SCSI-2 port with internal DMA.
- >
- > LAN, RS 232C, Video, bi-directionnal parallel port suitable for scanners.
- >
- > MIDI in and out, jack connectors for sound.
- >
- > 2 joystick ports, 2 enhanced digital/analog controller ports.
- >
- > 1.44 Mb floppy, optionnal IDE Hard-disk, transfer rate 1 Mb/sec.
- >
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > Lastly retail price of $700-900.
- >
- >
- >
- >
- >
-
-
- You do realize that this is just a Bad rummor started by some really
- stupid people don't you? I suggest that you go and look at what the parts
- alone will cost for what you just stated and then come back and say that
- Atari can build it for that price.
-
- troy
-
- Does one actually need a brain to think? Obviously Not!
-
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