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  2. From: baffoni@phakt.usc.edu (Juxtaposer)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
  4. Subject: Re: Comparisons between two fine machines...
  5. Date: 18 Dec 1992 10:29:38 -0800
  6. Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  7. Lines: 114
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  9. References: <1992Dec12.231159.7126@u.washington.edu> <Bz6I6J.9M4@unix.amherst.edu> <Bz6vFJ.18v@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
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  12. In article <Bz6vFJ.18v@ucunix.san.uc.edu> klasmekj@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Kevin J. Klasmeier) writes:
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  15. >Comparisons between two fine machines: the F030, and the Amiga 1200.
  16.  
  17.     Just wanted to do a little nit-picking :)
  18.  
  19. >                        Atari Falcon         CBM Amiga 1200
  20. >CPU                        68030              68EC020
  21. >speed(Mhz)                   16                14.32
  22. >data path(bit)               16                  32
  23.  (To CPU!)
  24.  
  25. >address space(bit)           24                  24
  26.  
  27. >FPU                      optional            optional
  28. >type                     68881/68882         68881/68882
  29.  
  30. >DSP                      yes                 no
  31. >type                     56001               N/A
  32. >speed(Mhz)               32                  N/A
  33.  
  34.  Dedicated Memory         96KB(32KWords)      N/A
  35.  
  36. >MEMORY & EXPANSION
  37. >ram(base model)          1 MB of 16bit       2 MB of 32bit
  38.  
  39.          Wups!  Ram is still layed out
  40.         as 32bit - _only_ CPU is 16bit
  41.  
  42. >max ram                  14 MB               10 MB
  43. >type                     proprietary board   proprietary & PCMCIA 2.0
  44. >rom                      512K                512K to 2MB
  45.  
  46. >DISK DRIVES
  47. >floppy                   3.5" 1.44Mb HD      3.5" 880K
  48. >format                   Atari\DOS           Amiga w\DOS utility prg
  49. >hard                     internal optional   internal optional
  50. >type                     2.5" IDE            2.5" IDE
  51.  
  52.  
  53. >I/O
  54. >keyboard                 attached w/numeric  attached w/numeric
  55. >mouse/joystick           2 reg 2 analog      2 reg
  56. >serial                   RS-232C             RS-232
  57. >parallel                 BI-directional      Centronics
  58. >video-out                analog RGB\VGA      analog\RGB\VGA\SVGA
  59. >                         composite\RF        composite\RF
  60. >audio-in                 stereo 1/8"mini     no
  61. >     -out                stereo 1/8"mini     stereo RCA
  62. >external floppy          no                  yes
  63. >internal IDE             yes                 yes
  64. >external SCSI            yes SCSI II w/DMA   no
  65. >midi                     in, out/thru        no
  66. >DSP                      yes(1 MHZ trans)    no
  67. >network                  Localtalk LAN       no
  68.  
  69. >EXPANSION                processor direct    cpu expansion slot
  70. >                         128K cartridge      PCMCIA 2 slot
  71.  
  72. >SOUND
  73. >resolution               16bit\50Khz         8bit\50Khz
  74. >channels                 8                   4
  75. >input                    yes\stereo          no
  76. >output                   stereo              stereo
  77. >
  78. >VIDEO
  79. >resolution-minimun       320x200             320x200
  80. >          -maximum       640x480             800x600\1280x400\640x960
  81. >palette(colors)          65,536              16.8 million
  82.               ^^^^^^
  83.               This should be
  84.               262,xxx - 18bit
  85.  
  86. >maximum displayed        65,536(640x400)     256,000(all res)
  87.  
  88.         This is somewhat misleading.  According to Amigaworld, the
  89. Amiga4000 (and I would imply that the 1200 too, since they have the same
  90. GFx chipset) has a normal palette of 256 colors (out of 16.8mil) in all 
  91. resolution, and that 256,000 colors are achieved using HAM modes.  This is 
  92. somewhat like saying that using the methods of Spectrum, the STe can display 
  93. 4096 colors at once in all (but monochrome) resolutions.
  94.  
  95. >overscan                 yes                 yes
  96.  
  97. >MISC
  98. >clock                    yes                 optional
  99.  
  100. >OPERATING SYSTEM
  101. >type                     multitasking gui    multitasking gui
  102. >location                 rom\disk            rom\disk
  103.  
  104. >SOFTWARE(included)
  105. >                         MultiTOS 4.0        AmigaDOS 3.0
  106. >                         D2D-Hard disk       CrossDOS-MSDOS utility
  107. >                          recording          misc utilities
  108. >                         Audio Fun Machine-
  109. >                          FX processor
  110. >                         misc utilities &
  111. >                          games
  112. >
  113. >PRICE(retail)            $799.00             $699.00
  114.  
  115. >(->**************************************************************************<-)(-> Kevin Klasmeier  InterNet: Klasmekj@ucunix.san.uc.edu  GEnie: K.KLASMEIER<-)(-> I rather be using a Falcon030. Don't bother me when I'm listening to RUSH<-)(->**************************************************************************<-)
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  118. -MikeB
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