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- From: raist@rmece02.upr.clu.edu (Ricardo Hernandez)
- Subject: Re: Falcon '030 BUS: 16 or 32 bit?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.023809.29786@rmece49.upr.clu.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov11.204525.11194@rmece49.upr.clu.edu><1992Nov13.230009.6192@prime.mdata.fi> <H.QHklPxgdMm2@fredrik.atari.no>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:38:09 GMT
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- In article <H.QHklPxgdMm2@fredrik.atari.no>, jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no (Joern Moe) writes:
- |> Ok, sorry about this guys, but here's the final facts:
- |>
- |>
- |> Date: 17 Nov 92 07:02:23 EST
- |> From: Wilfred Kilwinger <72347.2124@CompuServe.COM>
- |> Subject: Want to get something cleared up....
- |> To: >INTERNET:jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no
- |>
- |> >There's a lot of confusion going on at comp.sys.atari.st.tech about the
- |> >Falcon bus: Does it have 16 or 32 bit databus (CPU <-> memory)?
- |>
- |> This is what John Townsend (Atari Corp) said on GEnie:
- |> --------------------------------
- |> Atari-ST RoundTable
- |> Category 14, Topic 20
- |> Message 73 Mon Nov 16, 1992
- |> TOWNS [John@Atari] at 15:01 EDT
- |>
- |> Once and for all..
- |>
- |>
- |> The Falcon030 has a 24bit Address Bus and a 16bit Data Bus. The
- |> expansion port on the machine represents that bus.
- |>
- |>
- |> The Falcon030 can have a minimum of 1 meg of RAM and a maximum of
- |> 14 megs of RAM. Possible RAM configurations are 1meg, 4meg, or 16
- |> megs of RAM.
- |>
- |>
- |> -- John Townsend, Atari Corp.
- |> ------------------------------
- |> Note that the Apple LC and the Classic II use the same trick and some
- |> chips do have full 32bit access like the video logic.
- |>
- |> *****************
- |>
- |> Now, that should settle the discussion on wheter it has 16 or 32 bit bus, but
- |> it will certainly not settle the frustration among some of you Atarians now:-/
- |> But remember: with its low price, the Falcon 030 is quite uniq anyway!!
-
- Thanks for the final facts. This means that it has the same address
- bus as the A1200 (the 68EC020 has a 24-bit address bus which is 16Megs),
- and the A1200 should be around twice as fast due to a true 32-bit data bus.
-
- Oh well, still a DSP surely helps!
-
- A DSP is a DSP is a DSP.... :-)
-
- [stuff deleted]
- |>
- |> --
- |> _______________________________________________________
- |> / Joern F. Moe / All above is my own personal opinion! \
- |> / Oslo, Norway / Any lack of opinion above is also mine! \
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