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From: freed@aum.UUCP (Erik Freed)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Graphics chip on 1040ST
Message-ID: <441@aum.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 11:37:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 11:37:58 1986
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> In the March BYTE, there is an article on the 1040ST which mentions 
> that at some point there will be a socket in the 1040 motherboard for 
> a graphics chip followed at some time later with an actual chip to go 
> into the socket. I don't know about anyone else, but if it will cost 
> me a lot of money to exchange my motherboard for one with a socket or 
> if I don't know how much it will cost to upgrade then I'll wait a few 
> months (or more) to get the real thing. 
> 
> Will someone at Atari please clarify the availability of the socket 
> and the availability and capabilities of the forthcoming graphics chip. 

I was told by atari that there is no socket in the current 1040's and
this chip will not be for a while... I was assured that one could put
one in eventually but that it would involve a `kludge' I would not
put off buying a 1040 on this one. after all with custom VLSI, schedules
are a mystery to even the people intimately involved. They did say that
they had first silicon however... They also as an aside told me that
on the `Amy' chip, the 16 bit audio chip, they punted on it after 
difficulty in making the silicon do what they wanted; They sold the design 
to a third party.  Hopefully they are not going to be made in the
Phillipines ;-)
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                           Erik James Freed
			   Aurora Systems
			   San Francisco, CA
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