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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: UniTerm DOES run on the Mega-ST's (and some more experiences)
Message-ID: <1803@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 13:54:05 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 29 13:54:05 1987
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Summary: Socket that 68000, please?

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I believe the soldered-in 68000 in the Mega-ST is worse than the lack
of the blitter.  A socketed 68000 would, at an extra cost of about
50 cents to Atari, allow much easier upgrading of the machine, both
to use other CPU's (68020) and coprocessors (68881) _and_ the retrofitting
of a blitter if it ever arrives.  The expansion socket is great, but
a socket for the CPU is almost like having _two_ expansion sockets!

Any more votes for Atari to hear?

- Moshe Braner