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- From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
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- Subject: Re: Why no floppy port on the Falcon??
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- Date: 14 Sep 92 23:46:41 GMT
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- In article <18rjtgINN7m1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys) writes:
- >I guess I'll have to agree. We all cried about not having CD-ROMs
- >available for our computer.
- >
- >The SCSI 2 port should help a lot there.
-
- Yah, SCSI-2 is definitely a good thing.
- >
- >I thought about how the Falcon 030 and Jaguar could possibly
- >be compatible with each other.
- >
- >We hear that the Jaguar may have two 68030 processors running in
- >parallel. Well, what happens if you stick another 68030 in that
- >empty processor slot?
-
- Ya ever notice that the quotes always say "386SX" for that processor-direct
- slot? The slot is a *68000* bus-slot, i.e., 24 bit address and 16 bit data.
- Dunno why they'd put a 68000 bus into a 68030-based system, but it's there,
- with all the glue needed to make 68030 control signals look like 68000
- control signals. Weird. And also makes a very explicit statement about the
- system, it is not intended to allow peer-to-peer "parallel" processing, but
- to allow a less-powerful "slave" processor. So forget the thought of having
- two 68030s running in parallel, or any other dream of that sort, it isn't
- really workable.
- >
- >And, I bet the Jaguar wilhave a CD player built in...
- >
- >What happens if you just add a CD player to that SCSI port in the back?
- >
- >I'll bet that the Falcon 030 and future Jaguar are very closely
- >related and I'll that both were worked on the same time...
-
- As an interesting footnote, the preliminary Falcon docs were available at the
- Glendale Atari Fair. A few of the pages still had references to "Sparrow"
- scattered in the text. Fancy that, eh?
- --
- -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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