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From: rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT REVIEW
Message-ID: <1565@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 22 Mar 91 20:59:51 GMT
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D.B.Barratt@newcastle.ac.uk (Dave Barratt) writes:
>The following is more or less the complete  review of the TT by 
>Richard Monteiro, which appeared in the April edition of Computer 
>Shopper (UK edition). (Article 359 lines in total)
	[......]
>guidelines or making silly assumptions. The TT, or rather the 68030, 
>has a special 256K high-speed Ram cache in which frequently used 

I think that's a 256-byte rather than a 256 Kbyte D-cache, since the
author explicitly says that it's an attribute of the 68030.  256
Kbytes is rather a lot of cache to integrate onto the CPU die :-).
Apart from this, the review seemd quite accurate to me; there is one
small lacunae though.

About the serial ports: how many _uarts_ does this machine have, as
opposed to how many connectors appear on the back?  Is it one-to-one,
or do perhaps some connectors share a single uart?  Also, could some
well informed reader tell me (us) what the uart types for the various
ports are (6850, 8350, 8250, 16650a or what have you)?

I ask this since I understand that the Mega STe shares a uart between
the LAN port and one of the rs232 ports (implying that you can't
simultaneously converse with both the LAN and a device on the rs232
port in question).  I may be wrong (I hope I am wrong), but I suspect
there's an element of `checklist engineering' here.

I also note the complete absence of any pricing info, beyond
comparisons with (similarly unpriced) Macs.  Oh well, no problem.
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