Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!sdd.hp.com!usc!chaph.usc.edu!aludra.usc.edu!baffoni From: baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TT (Who has one?) Keywords: long Message-ID: <11060@chaph.usc.edu> Date: 27 Jul 90 07:21:34 GMT References: <1990Jul20.141733.5567@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Jul20.233102.24577@math.lsa.umich.edu> <13415@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: news@chaph.usc.edu Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu In article <13415@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes: >replace with a different chip, unless you have specialized equipment. By >the way, the 16MHz A3000s are also using the 16MHz 68881 at present, and it >is surface mounted. I don't know which FPU is in the 15.8MHz Mac IIcx, but ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I am not sure about this - Amiga just had some of there reps come over to USC to try and interest the school in buying/supporting the Amiga line. The rep at the demo said that the A3000s came with a coprocessor slot that when a 68040 is dropped in, the '40 takes over and uses the '30 as a slave processor. I am not sure that this is the same slot as would hold a 68881 (I am not up on the # of pins, etc.) but with the '40 in the machine, who cares if it has a 68881 or '82 when it has a '30 doing the job? Just my $.02 worth. (BTW, the demo the Amiga people put on was pretty darn good. They showed some nice genlock/multimedia demos with a laser-disk (of BladeRunner!) controller/ indexing/etc. and the possible uses of such a system. While I was watching it though, I couldn't help but feel this impossible wish that Atari might try the same thing: Bring in the TT (or even some high-end Megas) with the apropriate 3rd party wizbangs to make it look saleable. But then reality swept in and I realized that even if Atari wanted to try their hand at this end of the market, they would've probably choked on the support end if they were at all honest, or at least no one would have taken them seriously if they had guaranteed support for the ST line. Oh well .... one can only but dream ...:j) -Mike Baffoni baffoni@alcor.usc.edu or mbaffoni@skat.usc.edu