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Article #37719Re: Significance of ANTIC in Atari parlance.
From: Bryan Wu
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1989 19:35
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1989 19:35
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> *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.sys.atari.st: 29-Mar-89 Re: Significance of ANTIC* > *i.. to_stdnet@stag.UUCP (1446)* > things that were in memory. That was one of the nicest features of the > 8-bits. It's a pity that some other similar custom hardware doesn't appear > for the ST, or some other vendor's computer. (I mean a computer that costs > less that $1000 now.) Actually.. there is a similar graphics chip in a computer .. The Amiga.. Yup, that's right - This is probably because the guy who designed the 800 computer went to design the Amiga computer (when it was funded by Atari).. well, anyway, I hear that they have display lists and dli's and so on.. Oh well.. :) here's a bit of trivia: Sometimes the chips in Atari's stuff was named after secretaries who worked there: Amy - the sound chip (what ever happened to it?) Tia - ? Maria - in the 7800 game system etc.. -Bryan Wu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bw0i+ From: bw0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bryan Wu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Significance of ANTIC in Atari parlance. Message-ID: <IYCFY5y00XodM0YlZr@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 4 Apr 89 19:35:33 GMT References: <761@stag.UUCP> Organization: Class of '91, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: <761@stag.UUCP>