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From: D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk (D.C. Halliday)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How much would a TT with Unix cost me (roughly)?
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Date: 28 Aug 90 15:33:08 GMT
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In article <2421@laura.UUCP> atoenne@julien.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Toenne) writes:
>Ah, talking about the TT....  it sucks!
>According to specifications it should run at 32Mhz. Actually it houses
>a 68030xxx33 chip as I found by opening one (which is even more difficult
>than on the ST. Lots of shieldings and lots of screws. One screw holds
>the harddisk and when we removed it the disk dropped on the desk, oops :-)
>However, it is only slightly faster than a Mac II somewhat at 16Mhz
>which is rather disappointing (even then the TT is a reasonably priced
>machine comparing it to the price of Macs in Germay). I guess the other
>hardware was designed for 16Mhz only and cannot keep the pace.
>(rams are 100ns for instance)

At  present  the  system as sold to developers is an 8Meg machine with
33Mzh CPU but clocked at 16Mhz. The  final  release  version  will  be
clocked at 32Mhz. I am not sure if this will involve the whole machine
running at 33Mhz or if a cache method similar to HyperCache or Turbo16
on  the ST will be used. Either way the performance increase should be
significant.

Dave Halliday
(D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk)