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Title: Scion SuperScreen summary
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Posted: Wed Mar 30 14:45:33 1983
Received: Thu Mar 31 02:08:13 1983

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[This is from the September 1982 release announcement]

10Mhz 68000, 640k RAM (display and compute), 64k EPROM
1024x768 white phosphor display (60hz refresh rate)
2 independant display planes, one text, one graphic (can be overlayed)
Hardware display page swap and panning
Window management firmware overlapping/stacked windows, up to 4 "desks"
256 symbol fonts generated by hardware character generator
Font sizes from 6x10 to 16x16 w/4 attributes per character
4 RS232c ports (all status bits accessable, up to 19.2k baud)
Mouse interface
32 bit wide parallel keyboard interface
SASI disk interface
16 bit parallel (16 in/16 out w/handshaking) interface to host
	Note: they support a multibus card at the other end of this to
		interface to multibus based systems.
Sound generator, AY-3-8912 3 channel sound chip
Speech generator, Votrax SC01 chip
Real-time clock w/alarm interrupts, crystal clocked & battery backup
50 byte user writeable non-volatile parameter RAM
Lots of ROM and RAM availible for user software

Text graphic plane combinations: text-only, graphic-only, 14 boolean combo ops
Character attributes: winking, underlined, reversed, invisible
Character size of screen: densest 102v x 128h, default 66v x 96h
Desktop: a structure containing windows
Maximum of 5 full screen windows may be stacked on top of one another
Can map up to 2048x2048 area onto smaller physical screen (can pan around)

System is in 4 slot cage, 3 boards on "V-bus" (proprietary to Scion) w/fan.

(ron)

PS- When I called Scion today they said they were just getting the *first*
version of the PC board artwork back.  They estimate several months plus before
commercial product is shipped.  They will wire-wrap prototypes for eager
beavers.  Any takers?
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