Re: Motorola's DSP 56001 and 96002

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From: Jonathan J. Smith
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:24

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In article <10607@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>loj@cae.wisc.edu (Lo Jeffrey) writes:
>
>>Sorry for asking a dumb question, but what is a falcon030 and 040?
>
>The falcon030 is the new low-cost machine from Atari Corp. - it has a
>16MHz 68030 and a 32MHz 56001 (with 32K of 24bit words), excellent (16bit)
>sound, and graphics (VGA + 65000 colour True-Colour), all BUILT-IN.
>
>Probably a cheaper platform for DSP development than any card for IBM's or
>Apple Macs - the falcon030 is priced at $800 for the bare machine (no
>harddrive, no monitor, only 1 megabyte - add any SCSI drive, or 2.5" IDE drive,
>and any VGA/SVGA monitor).
>
>It looks like DSP is finally coming to home computers (NeXT already have
>them, but they're STILL out of my price range).  I hear the latest Amiga
>also has DSP.  Now we might start seeing home applications - who'd bother
>in the past when machines did not come standard with DSP.
>

The laatest amiga , the A4000, does _NOT_ have a built in DSP... 
>--
>Warwick
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Jonathan Smith

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