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Article #2032Re: Questions re. hard disks, clocks, and neil harris.
From: Dave Clemans
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1986 17:24
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1986 17:24
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The rumors about a new set of ROMS for the ST might come from the work being done on the blitter upgrade. As part of installing that upgrade, a completely new set of ROMS must be inserted to support the blitter. At the San Jose Atari show, where a couple of 1040's in the Atari booth were running with the blitter, Sam Tramiel announced that the blitter chip was done (though I'm not sure whether his announcement implied that the roms to support the blitter were also complete). To upgrade existing ST's, a version of the blitter is packaged as a 64-pin DIP. That package is piggy-backed on top of the 68000. dgc
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!qantel!lll-lcc!lll-crg!seismo!vrdxhq!verdix!ogcvax!sequent!mntgfx!dclemans From: dclemans@mntgfx.UUCP (Dave Clemans) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: Questions re. hard disks, clocks, and neil harris. Message-ID: <392@mntgfx.mntgfx.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 13:24:10 EDT Article-I.D.: mntgfx.392 Posted: Thu Sep 25 13:24:10 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 06:38:04 EDT References: <8609151828.AA03938@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <425@atari.UUcp> <1086@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> Organization: Mentor Graphics, Beaverton OR Lines: 12 Summary: new ST roms -> blitter upgrade