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From: meulenbr@cstw01.UUCP (Frans Meulenbroeks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: TT TT/X specs (rumour?)
Message-ID: <252@cstw01.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 88 08:39:59 GMT
Reply-To: meulenbr@cst.UUCP ()
Organization: Centre for Software Technology, Philips Eindhoven
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Hi!

Yesterday I had a brief glance on a german magazine called
"68000 ST magazin" or something like that.

They had a 2 page article on the TT and TT/X, together with a
functional schematic with the name Roy Good on it.

The specs were as follows:
Two different machines: the TT being the low entry model, the TT/X being
the Unix box. Only difference I saw wat that the TT had 2 MB ram and the
TT/X had 4 MB ram. The rest seemed alike.
The figures:
68030 processor at 16 Mhz
optionally 68881/2
Yamaha sound chip.
DMA port (ACSI)
SCSI port
MIDI interface
same multifunction chip
VME bus with 5 free slots (on all models?)
extendible to or with 8 MB (internally without using a slot).
Some slow lan (not a 10 Mhz Ethernet).
Monochrome monitor: 1280 * 960 pixels.
Als 6 or 7 different color res.
3.5" floppy wiht 2MB raw date (1.44 MB formatted)

Software (Unix box)
BSD 4.3 
ksh
NFS
X/Windows

NOT PRESENT (despite all rumours)
Signal processor, A/D D/A converter

Delivery:
to selected developers: end '88
customer introduction: in Germany at the Cebit (March/April '89)

Unknown:
price
customer delivery

Miscellaneous:
The memory path to the video was 64 bit wide.

My questions:
Can someone (perhaps from Germany) supply additional info.

Will atari (Roy, Allen?) confirm/deny this? (And perhaps fill in the
details)
Will there be a different tos/030, or will the same os run on both ST and
TT?
Is this thing running tos 1.4 or should we expect another version soon?
Will this box be shown at Comdex/Fall?

Wrap-up:
I don't have any more info, so PLEASE don't ask.
I just scribbled this on the back of an envelope from the mag.

PS: anyone interested in bying a 1040 with 68020/68881 ??

-- 
Frans Meulenbroeks        (meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl)
	Centre for Software Technology
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