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From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari TT 030 Launched!
Keywords: Atari TT
Message-ID: <1990Jun9.190057.670@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 90 19:00:57 GMT
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In article <1990Jun9.025410.5174@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>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?

Yes, I think it was Dave Haynie of Commodore who stated on c.s.a that
the A3000 has full support of the 68030 burst mode.  Will the TT?

>
>-- greg
>
>--
>"Perhaps I'm commenting a bit cynically, but I think I'm qualified to."
>                                              - Dan Bernstein

Yep, you're qualified.

Cheers,

Chris

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