ins_bjjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Jared J Brennan) (05/12/88)
I've read numerous articles about the forthcoming 16MHz upgrade for
the Atari ST. Completely TOS/GEM compatible, $200, zowie, etc. It's
recently occurred to me to wonder whether this will aid the Magic Sac,
Translator, and pc-ditto.
I don't think it will work with the Translator at all, because of
some of David Small's comments in his Current Notes articles about
speed problems between the Translator and ST. I'm not sure about the
Sac or pc-ditto, and I don't recall reading anything about the results
using these two emulators.
Needless to say, a 16MHz Mac with larger screen, faster hard disk,
more memory (maybe), etc. would be a real brain blaster. Not to mention
a 2MHz (?) PC . . .
Speaking of memory, I'd also like to ask about RAM upgrades for a
1040ST. Cheapest, best quality, best supported, etc. Also, what is
their effect on software (i.e., does anything die painfully and/or
destructively with 4 megs in a 1040) ?
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Jared J. Brennan
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UUCP: {allegra!hopkins, ihnp4!whuxcc} !jhunix!ins_bjjbrosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz) (05/13/88)
--- rumor has it (a reliable colleague, reading something on CI$) that a company called xetek is making a floating point chip add-on for the ST, and should realize performance improvements of 2-30x (obviously on code dominated by floating point ops normally done in software on the ST). code has to be recompiled. don't know what happens to line F with this implementation. they are also s'posed to provide a library for flops. company is in Salina, KS. cost: circa $200... anybody hear any more on this? -bill