From: rich@gtsi.com (Richard Lawrence)
Subject: Falcon specs from Sam Tramiel
Organization: GTSI - Govt. Technology Services Inc.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 05:19:50 GMT

Well, for what it's worth, here is a message I captured off of GEnie. Seems
the Sam ster himself (Sam Tramiel, owner of Atari) held a conference there
recently and talked about the Falcon. 

I *personally* think this machine is a brain dead idea, but since there's
been interest I'm posting the article. Make of it what you will. Religious
computer discussions redirected to /dev/null (as in, don't mail me, I'm
just not interested).

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Category 14,  Topic 20
Message 1         Thu Aug 13, 1992
STRAMIEL [Atari CEO]         at 16:00 EDT

 Thank you to all that attended the conference last night. It was great!
 We had a wonderful time doing the conference at Atari, and look forward
 to being online again in about 3 months with you!

 Thanks to Jeff Williams for doing a terrific job of moderating the very
 busy evening!! Great job, Jeff!!

 Once again, here are the specs on the Atari Falcon 030:

 CPU: Motorola 68030 running at 16Mhz.
 32 bit bus
 Optional 68881 or 68882 FPU
 RAM: 1, 4, or 14 megs
 Standard Atari Cartridge Port
 Motorola 56001 DSP Chip

 Expansion Bus:

 Internal direct processor slot for 386SX PC emulation, or other
 co-processor.

 Graphics:

 Super VGA graphics: 640x480 with 256 colors
 True Color 16 bit mode allowing a display of up to 65,536 colors
 Accepts external video sync signal to allow high quality genlocking
 Overscan mode on TV's and ST Color monitors
 262,144 colors
 hardware-assisted horizontal fine scrolling
 BLiTTER graphics co-processor

 Sound features:

 Eight 16 bit audio DMA record and playback channels
 Stereo 16 bit digital DMA input
 Stereo 16 bit digital DMA output
 SDMA sound/DMA coprocessor

 Standard ports

 SCSI II port with DMA
 High speed LocalTalk compatible LAN
 Connector for analog RGB color (ST or VGA) or composite video
 RS232C serial port
 Bidirectional parallel porot
 MIDI IN/MIDI OUT
 Stereo microphone input, miniature stereo plug
 Stereo audio out, miniature stereo plug
 Two joystick connectors
 Two enhanced digital/analog controller/light pen connectors

 Data Storage

 1.44 Mbyte floppy disk drive
 Optional internal IDE hard disk

 System Software

 Pre emptive multitasking with adaptive prioritization (MultiTOS)
 Inter process communication
 New Desk desktop and eXtensible control panel
 Multiple window user interface; number of windows limited only by
 memory or software in use.

 We see this computer as exceeding all of the multimedia expectations
 of the computer buying public.  As well as being an exceptional value
 as a home computer system.

 Extensive testing with the Atari Falcon 030 has already been done on
 existing software.  We are very pleased with the high degree of
 compatibility.  For instance, PowerNet, a increasingly popular LocalTalk
 networking solution works fine with no modifications.  Calamus SL,
 PageStream, WordFlair II, Cubase 3.0, STalker 3.0, STeno, Arabesque,
 and many other well written applications will work perfectly.
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If you're interested in secondary discussion, check out the GEnie ST
roundtable. The category and subject are in the message header above.

I just hope they don't screw the Lynx.
-- 
Rich Lawrence - "Stinger" - DoD#9630 '92 Seca II - Buckaroo Banzai lives!
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  rich@halluc.com   CI$:71101,2272   Fido:1:109/345   GEnie: R.LAWRENCE14
                      "I'm fine" - Data, in DataLore
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