dsmall@well.sf.ca.us (David Small) (04/14/91)
Many people I met at CEbit '91 requested me to post into here my
net address; please "follow back" the routing this message took to
get to you to find the way to my signon here at dsmall@well.sf.ca.us ...
Apparently I overwhelmed the email capacity of my signon on
the Well at 256K bytes while in Germany; many messages bounced, all of those
during March. I apologize; I was on vacation, and did not know the Well
imposed Email limits. (It's just as well; you pay for space above a certain
amount).
While I'm making an attempt to support users here, it's difficult;
many messages "bounce" when I try to reply, and I haven't the foggiest notion
why. ("unknown system ID? hunh?") I put most of the effort into supporting
questions on comp.sys.atari.st simply because about 50% of my email replies
bounce back to me and never reach their destination, whereas atari.st makes
it there.
During times of heavy software development or colicky children I'll
periodically "miss" here; it'll happen. I apologize in advance, but I'll try.
For instance, it's currently 2 AM here, and I'm due to visit my mother in law
tomorrow.. *gack*..
In response to the 1.44 mbyte question, I have no idea how a 1.44 meg
drive could work; we have no, zero, zip software support in it in Spectre
3.0.
Perhaps Apple installs a device driver for Apple File Exchange? You got me.
The step rate can be altered if you go after Spectre with something like
MacsBug or TMon, which are becoming available in Spectre compatible
versions. In the meantime, until Atari or someone sets a high density
standard, we don't know what to do -- support 78 different boards and
controllers? Support thr few 1772's that work at high speed? I don't know.
We did reserve shift F1 and shift F2 for mounting high density, but that's
it; there is -no- code "hooked in" to those keys right now.
In response to the 68030 question, the 68030 SST is coming along quite
nicely. We're doing final tuning of the "George Memory Unit" controller,
software compatibility testing, and entering Beta testing phase. We've toyed
with 50 Mhz, but the overall system gives better throughput at 33 Mhz due to
burst mode being available at that speed, so we'll probably "top end" right
now
at 33.
The performance is still quite interesting; I'll post some Q-Index
benchmarks
(or dhrystones, whatever ...) as soon as we get the boards "cast in concrete"
to
what people will be getting. That should occur within this week; we wanted
to test at 50 Mhz due to many requests at CeBIT.
As always, if UseNet mail doesn't get through (likely), our fax
is at (303) 791-0253, and has a patient, attentive manner.
Sorry for the length of the message; lots to cover.
Dave Small / Gadgets by Small / Hey, it's my birthdayBob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com (04/15/91)
>Dave Small / Gadgets by Small / Hey, it's my birthday
Hey Dave...! Happy Birthday..!!
:)
BobR