Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!emory!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrlnk!ncr-mpd!kentd From: kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com (Kent.Dalton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: MegaSTe info Message-ID: Date: 6 Feb 91 09:44:57 GMT References: <1991Feb03.062924.15318@ecst.csuchico.edu> <1991Feb3.121355.5874@marlin.jcu.edu.au> Sender: uucp@ncr-mpd.FtCollins.NCR.COM Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO Lines: 57 In-reply-to: glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au's message of 3 Feb 91 12:13:55 GMT >> >>The Spectre GCR works very nice with this machine. You get hard disk >>performance of something between a IIfx and IIsi. 600-700 kiloBYTES per >second. 33ms access time. > >I'm just curious, are all ST hard disks this slow ? 33ms. No. Hard drive access time has nothing to do with what computer it's interfaced to. Throughput does, however, and that is what the author was talking about. >> >>I am very pleased. The retail value of the machine is $1979.99. TOS 2.05's > >This seems to be a lot for a 68000 based machine. Please remember that is retail price. It'll probably go for substantially less when it's available for sale here (U.S.). I won't speculate any further since they aren't generally available. >> >>Now here is the port listing from the DOCS: >> >>Graphics 320x200x16 >> 640x200x4 >> 640x400x2 >> >>Color 4096 Colors >What's the story with 640x400x2 ? Duh. That means that in this mode the machine can display 640 dots horizontally and 400 vertically with a choice of 2 different colors :^) :^) >An amiga can do 640x400x16 AND even >640x400x4096, without any additional hardware. Funny, I don't seem to remember the poster saying the amiga couldn't do that or that the STe could? It's not relevant, and could potentially start a flame-war... Heck it's not even news, the amiga has been able to display that resolution since 1986-7 and the ST series has been doing 640x400 in monochrome for ages. IMHO, Both machines' stock graphics need updating to be considered "state of the art" -- /**************************************************************************/ /* Kent Dalton * EMail: Kent.Dalton@FtCollins.NCR.COM */ /* NCR Microelectronics * CIS: 72320,3306 */ /* 2001 Danfield Ct. MS470A * */ /* Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 * (303) 223-5100 X-319 */ /**************************************************************************/ Fortune: Teamwork is essential -- it allows you to blame someone else.