ravi@eneevax.UUCP (Ravi Kulkarni) (01/27/85)
I heard that one could ask questions on compuserve about the new atari machines and Antic would submit them to Atari which would then respond on compuserve. I have a few questions that might be asked if someone can submit them on compuserve. Of course if anyone else can answer them that is ok too. These are about ST machines. 1. Is the 128k machine expandable to 512k by just adding in 64k chips and if so is there a jumper that can be changed so that it can accept 256k chips for future expandability to 2Mbytes. 2. Is there intelligent disk io that uses a dma controller and priotized interrupt structure ala the ibm pc? This is important when one has to handle interrupts from various sources. 3. Can hard disks and floppy disks be daisy chained or is one limited to just one hard disk and one floppy disk? 4. Is atari planning on supporting the new cd roms for access to large databases or reference guides, etc? 5. Is there any memory management hardware on the machine? This would be useful for porting operating systems like unix, os9, or gnu. 6. How does one go about becoming a software developer for the new machines. That is can anybody obtain technical info for hardware or software development. 7. What are Atari's plans for supporting some form of local area network? 8. Will the peripherals for the new machines be compatible with Atari's forthcoming 32bit machine? Note: I don't expect all of these features to be on the ST machines. After all how much can you get for $400. But, it should at least form some idea as to it's limitations. -- ARPA: eneevax!ravi@maryland UUCP: [seismo,allegra]!umcp-cs!eneevax!ravi