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From: ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: TT compiler
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.195808.21818@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 17 Dec 90 19:58:08 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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    I just got a TT030 last Friday (ordered Monday) from Atari Canada.
For 4 meg RAM, 48 meg HD, it cost 2900 Cdn (~2400 US); the multi-res
monitor (ST-low, ST-med, ST-high, TT-low, TT-med) was another $750.
Those are educational prices. First impressions: it is noticeably
faster (the desktop is close enough to instant, pagestream runs
much more smoothly), the ST-high mode is _almost_ as good as the
SM124 screen, the desktop is disappointingly similar to TOS 1.4;
fortunately NeoDesk runs.
    If anyone has information on what compilers are available that
can take advantage of the 68030, 68881, the VME, the TT-low and med
resolutions, etc, I would be grateful to hear about them. Atari
(Canada) recommended Hi-Soft C form Europe. So far I haven't found
a North American distributer. Will megamax upgrade their compiler;
that would be cheaper for Laser C owners, and probably a faster
compiler.
Werner Ens
Physics, Manitoba