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- From: CASTAN@bonnie.physik.uni-stuttgart.de ()
- Subject: Re: Falcon BUS..
- In-Reply-To: mpnolan@unix1.tcd.ie's message of Wed, 4 Nov 1992 12:44:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.093905.21511@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- Organization: Physics Dept, University of Stuttgart, FRG
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 09:39:05 GMT
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- In <mpnolan.720881057@unix1.tcd.ie> mpnolan@unix1.tcd.ie writes:
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- > I believe that Atari have at last got their act together...
- >
- > Q: As the Falcon has (from what I've heard) one bus (32),
- > how will the custom chips (DSP,DMA Sound,Blitter,H-Scrolling,..)
- Blitter is new with 16 MHz
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- > interact, and will the system lose preformance as a result?
- There are 4 independent parts that can be connected together
- (free programmable): 68030, 56001, CODEC (=AD/DA/sum), ?
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- >
- > Surely the DSP has it's own bus, as it does have 56k of it's own
- > memory!?
- 32k words of fast (32 MHz) SRAM (3 bytes/word). Own bus.
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- >
- > Thanks, Mark Nolan
- >
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- Gerd
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