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From: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari TT 030 Launched!
Keywords: Atari TT
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Date: 9 Jun 90 02:54:10 GMT
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In article <524@cvbnetPrime.COM> jshekhel@feds19.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel ) writes:
>
>Not really, becase at 16 MHz, an uncached system is no longer zero-wait,
>unless you use 60ns DRAMs, which I doubt these machines will use.  Am I
>wrong about this?  I'd like to know for sure.

Yeah, but the 68030 has cache lines, so some 68030 memory systems can
use the burst mode to load the cache quite quickly. We'll have to see
when it hits the shelf if the TT uses this mode. Does the A3000 use it
at all?

-- greg

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