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Subject: Re: Unix for the TT?
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Date: 4 Jun 91 05:33:06 GMT
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In article <1991May31.192058.10926@nntp.hut.fi> s37837k@saha.hut.fi (Jari Lehto) writes:
>Unix System V Release 4 is available for TT.  The package consists of
>TT 030/8 or higher (16 Mb would be quite good), harddisk bigger than
>200Mb (I'm not quite sure of this), X-Windows, TTM 194 19" MC-monitor
>and a big bunch of software and manuals.
>I don't know the exact price, but it is much lower than the NeXT Station,
>and A 3000 & Unix SVR4.
  By a little?  A lot?  Is that only available in Europe/Canada or is that/ 
will that be available in the US too?
>
>Just checked, the harddisk is 200Mb, and there are also VME Ethernet network
>card, OSF/Motif, and GNU package (with C, C++ etc.).
>
  Are there extra card slots?  If not, will there be some way of expanding past
the 20MB limit (16TT + 4ST ram) since the slot would be taken up by the 
ethernet card?  


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	I had a question for all the hardware gurus who know whats what about
the TT - like Alan Pratt, etc.   I know that the TT uses a daughter-board
to use the TT "fast" memory, and that this board has chips that allow access
of up to 16MB  of memory.  What I was wondering is, is this 16MB limit a limit
due to the daughter-board, a limit of the TT, or just a limit of the TOS? 
For instance, would it be possible for a third party company (if Atari does't
do it themselves) to manufacture a daughter-board that accesses more than
the present 16MB?  

-Mike

PS:  Is the unix/TT the same hardware with the new software, or are there any
hardware changes?  New card slots?  New ROMs (I had heard they couldn't run
ST software _and_ run the Unix software)?