Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!LIVERPOOL.AC.UK!USQB015 From: USQB015@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Mark Powell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: What does ST stand for? Message-ID: <8904232136.AA04582@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 23 Apr 89 14:30:19 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 ST stands for Sixteen - Thirty two The architecture of the ST's processor. Sixteen bit external, Thirty two bit internal. i.e. can process thirty two bit numbers directly, but can only access sixteen bits of memory at once. Atari's new computer (?) is called a TT i.e. Thirty two - Thirty two This can handle thirty two bit numbers directly and also access thirty two bit portions of memory directly. Mark Powell ARPANet : Forgotten this one again!!! JANET : usqb015@uk.ac.liv.ibm USENET : mcvax!ukc!ibm.liv.ac.uk!usqb015