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- From: marks@castle.ed.ac.uk (Mark Steyn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Falcon '030 BUS: 16 or 32 bit?
- Message-ID: <28341@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 14:22:48 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.204525.11194@rmece49.upr.clu.edu><1992Nov13.230009.6192@prime.mdata.fi> <92321.132102JJL101@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Nov17.050651.18469@rmece49.upr.clu.edu> <H.QHklPxgdMm2@fredrik.atari.no>
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- jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no (Joern Moe) writes:
-
- >Ok, sorry about this guys, but here's the final facts:
-
- Don't apologise for something outwith your control.
- The only apologies should come from Atari, if wha you have posted
- is indeed true.
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- > 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.
-
- AAUUUGGGGHHHHH!!!!! [I apologies for the capitals in advance]
-
- I REALLY CANNOT BELIEVE ATARI HAVE DONE THIS!!!!
-
- > -- 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.
- >
- >*****************
-
- Apple did it first so it's ok?
- Up until now the Falcon sounded pretty much perfect.
- Fast '030, DSP, SCSI etc.
-
- All implemented over a 16 bit bus.
- Wonderful.
-
- There's no place like home.
- There's no place like home.
- There's no place like home.
-
- Nope - that postings still there :-(
-
- Somehow the Falcon doesn't seem to be quite so nice anymore.
-
- >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!!
-
- Unique, perhaps. Crippled definately.
-
- I have owned an A500 (yes, I suppose that does make me one of the enemy)
- for the past 3 years now and am saving up to upgrade to an as yes
- undecided 'something better'. The Falcon looked *so* good to start
- with, but *if* this is really true (I stress the if because I wait for
- further postings - I still have difficulty believing it) I doubt I will
- ever buy a Falcon.
-
- Someone out there please refute this.
-
- Mark
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