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- From: glens@natinst.com (Glen Sescila)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: More Falcon news...
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 07:43:48 -0600
- Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
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- References: <2349658@overmind.citadel>
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- In article <2349658@overmind.citadel> undermind!Steve_Johnson@overmind.mind.org writes:
- >The
- >Falcon030's 68030 has a 24-bit address/16-bit data bus. It get's a little
- >confusing, though, because the COMBEL (the system controller) has a 32-bit
- >bus to RAM and to the VIDEL (the video controller).
-
- If the memory is already 32-bit wide (for COMBEL & VIDEL) then why
- not make the 030 have 32-bit access? It seems that it would not add to the
- cost at all since the memory is already 32-bit wide.
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