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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)?
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.145610.14234@newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Aug 90 14:56:10 GMT
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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 ?

Well probably.

>
>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.

If the machine going to developers, is the final machine why the delay
in  shipping? Perhaps german developers have got the 32Mhz machine but
if what you say is correct then the HW  mod  is  juct  like  the  JOTO
accelerater  for the ST and does not offer that much exta performance.
I hope not :-(

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