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From: stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What does the TT Buy me??
Keywords: atari, unix
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Date: 10 Nov 89 19:56:00 GMT
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In article <13199@s.ms.uky.edu> phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) writes:
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#     A company which shall remain nameless has already announced that they'll
#have a 68040 board for current systems when the 68040 becomes available in
#large quantities.
#     I think offering a processor upgrade path would make the Atari line
#more interesting to the buyer. Official memory upgrade paths would do the
#same. I've seen more than one person turned off by "you mean, I have to go
#third party to put in more RAM? I think I'll look at this other machine..."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, VME is a multimaster bus
which means that you can plug another processor board in there and let
it control the system.  Perhaps this is one of the reasons Atari chose to
use an expensive bus standard. 


#                                             (not counting inflation),
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