Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!tkld From: tkld@castle.ed.ac.uk (K Davidson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: How much would a TT with Unix cost me (roughly)? Message-ID: <6036@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 30 Aug 90 13:31:11 GMT References: <2421@laura.UUCP> <1990Aug28.153308.11588@newcastle.ac.uk> <2427@laura.UUCP> Organization: EPCC, Edinburgh University Lines: 43 In article <2427@laura.UUCP> atoenne@julien.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Toenne) writes: >In article <1990Aug28.153308.11588@newcastle.ac.uk> D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk (D.C. Halliday) writes: >>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. > >Are you sure ? really sure ? > >If this is true, Atari Germany will have tons of problems. They sold those >machines as 32Mhz *CLOCK SPEED*. Now all developers are pissed. >What is the use of a development machine if it runs only at 1/2 of the >speed of the regular ones ? You cannot do performance tests, timing adjustments >etc. > I read in the Guardian (UK) Computer section today that the "Atari TT030" is on sale *now* in the UK and Germany. UK price (2meg RAM, 40meg HD, colour monitor) L1990 + VAT 32 MHz processor (different, the article says, from developers versions which are apparrently 16 MHz) The article goes on to say that the Unix has been delayed another 6 months due to a new Unix (AT&T SysV.4 instead of V.3), being ported by a UK company (called Root or somesuch) . New window manager (from some French Company - never heard of it before IXI's X.Desktop would be a better move IMHO) ...and... a switch to using the GNU compiler gcc (Hurray !! Rah!) > Andreas Toenne .Kevin. || || ...and he did not think it too many. -- .Kevin. || || ...and he did not think it too many.