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loj@cae.wisc.edu (Lo Jeffrey) writes:

>In article <Bvt76B.CMt@ufrima.imag.fr> mathevet@boole (MATHEVET Jerome) writes:
>>I'm willing to purchase the falcon030 as soon as it is released .
>>The 030 version is to have the DSP 56001 and the 040 the 96002 (the 
>>latest DSP from Motorola). Unfortunately, noone has ever edited anything
>>about them (In france). If anyone has the motorola's programmer handbook
>>in a file (the complete specs, if available), it would be nice to mail
>>them to me (I mean, E-mail of course).
>>

>Sorry for asking a dumb question, but what is a falcon030 and 040?

>Jeff Lo
>loj@cae.wisc.edu

The falcon030 and 040 are Atari's new personal multimedia computers.
The 030 contains a 68030 processor, optional floating point processor,
between 1 and 14 meg ram, scsi2 hd-interface, high-res "true-color"
(up to 16 bitplanes) graphics and 8 channel 16 bit audio with a sampling-
frequency up to 50 kilohertz.
It also contains a digital signal processor chip, the dsp56001. 
The operating system is multitos which is preemptive multitasking.
I know nothing about the 040 so I wont say anything about it!
Read more about the 030 in comp.sys.atari.st.
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