Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!van-bc!jonh!jhenders From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ATARI's current line Message-ID: Date: 30 Jan 91 09:09:00 GMT References: <1991Jan29.230448.10573@cs.ucla.edu> <4105@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> Reply-To: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca Distribution: comp Lines: 39 X-Version: Martin's Mailer Version Sep 07 1990 23:50:52 In <1991Jan29.230448.10573@cs.ucla.edu>, Steve Whitney writes: >In article <4105@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> gaudreau@east.sun.com (Joe Gaudreau - Sun BOS Software) writes: >`madsen@admin.usask.ca () writes: >`=jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer) writes: >...describing the Mega STE... >`= - 1SCSI >`None. That's the TT. I'm pretty sure the internal harddrive on the STe is an imbedded SCSI drive plugged directly to the computer, so there is scsi there. Whether it was brought out the back of the computer or not, sorry, I didn't look. Ilike the concept behind the Mega STe1. It's basically a dealer configuable box, as the cost on 256k simms appearantly is about 3.00$. Now if someone could come out with a board which used a bunch of 256k simms to make a 4 meg board that fit the 4 simm slots, there'd be a use for all those excess simms....... Someone mentioned here that the 2.5 meg configuration didn't work due to a bug in tos 1.6. If what I've heard is correct, this is wrong. The new mmu is part of a larger chip with other custom chips incorperated into it. I'd say the logic to support the 2.5 meg config was left out to simplify design, rather than from malice. > >Actually, the Mega STE _does_ have the Localtalk port. It's labeled "LAN" > A friend of mine is looking for an X Terminal package which supports the rs232 port on the ST and doesn't have to be purchased with a lan board of any sort. Does anyone know of a company that supplys this? I was looking through a book on programming for X, and it seems that the primitives look a lot like VDI calls. An interesting project would be an X terminal package that mapped the X communications to a Gem window. -- John Henders jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca Vancouver,B.C. or jhenders@wimsey.bc.ca or ubc.cs!van-bc!jonh!jhenders