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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What does the TT Buy me??
Keywords: atari, unix
Message-ID: <3747@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 89 07:34:14 GMT
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In article <29034@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> stephen@oahu.UUCP (Steve Whitney) writes:
>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. 


True. Standard-VME is a multimaster BUS.
Ataris "implementation" in the TT/Personal (the one to come real soon
now) is not capable of multiple masters.

as someone@atari said, the TT/x (the larger machine, prototypes yet to
be seen) will have a 32-bit extended VME BUS capable of multiple bus
masters.

Very few VME cards are BUS masters. Most are slaves. So the TT/P's slot
will do almost everything You want it to do.


But why don't we all just shut up till the TT appears in the shops, till
we get facts/real machines thar rattle when falling down?

hase
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