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- From: baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Utterly bizarre idea for Atari
- Date: 18 Aug 1992 16:21:35 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <9FwoPB3w164w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca> boris@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (boris) writes:
- >baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
- [my suggestions for minimum hardware on a multi-proccessor system deleted]
- >Sounds like the new Falcon to me.
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- Not even. For starters, it has an '030 - no "other cache" awareness,
- and still maintains bus mastership like the other Moto chips <'040. Although
- it does have a Processor direct slot, it sounds like it is only 16bits wide
- which would really blow chunks trying to put another proccessor on it. It
- is (so far) limited to 14MB - not much room for concurrent processes, let
- alone system space. And to top it off - there is not much room to spare
- in that 1040STe style case - multiprocessors+glue are going to be big and
- are probably going to generate a LOT of heat, not to mention likely to
- totally waste the power supply.
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- However, this is not going to stop it from being an excellent
- single proc. machine - very multi-media-ish.
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- >
- >;--- (boris) a user of sys6626, running waffle 1.64
- >;E-mail: boris@sys6626.bison.mb.ca
- >;system 6626: 63 point west drive, winnipeg manitoba canada R3T 5G8
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- -Mike
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