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From: MULTI@TRIUMFCL.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: My Wish List...
Message-ID: <8712230005.AA01958@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 23 Dec 87 00:02:00 GMT
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It 'would be nice' if Atari provided an IBM-PC/xt compatible i/o
channel adaptor with their standard (ie, AFFORDABLE) 680X0 based
microcomputer line.  This would combine the advantage of a large
(16-megabyte minimum) DIRECTLY-addressable address space with the
advantage of a large, existing, AFFORDABLE selection of IBM-PC/xt
peripherals.  In addition, we would like to point out that the
Motorola 680X0 instruction set is much friendlier than the Intel
80X86 instruction set, and that the Motorola math-coprocessors
tend to be MUCH faster than their Intel (NMOS=overheat) equivalents.
Now, if only Atari would allow their GEM rom-based operating system
to operate with the (faster) 68020, and supply a functional socket
for the 68881 math co-processor.

ps:     Ever try Engineering/Physics Phortran with 64K segments?