From: baffoni@phakt.usc.edu (Juxtaposer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Comparisons between two fine machines...
Date: 18 Dec 1992 10:29:38 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <Bz6vFJ.18v@ucunix.san.uc.edu> klasmekj@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Kevin J. Klasmeier) writes:


>Comparisons between two fine machines: the F030, and the Amiga 1200.

	Just wanted to do a little nit-picking :)

>                        Atari Falcon         CBM Amiga 1200
>CPU                        68030              68EC020
>speed(Mhz)                   16                14.32
>data path(bit)               16                  32
 (To CPU!)

>address space(bit)           24                  24

>FPU                      optional            optional
>type                     68881/68882         68881/68882

>DSP                      yes                 no
>type                     56001               N/A
>speed(Mhz)               32                  N/A

 Dedicated Memory         96KB(32KWords)      N/A

>MEMORY & EXPANSION
>ram(base model)          1 MB of 16bit       2 MB of 32bit

	 	Wups!  Ram is still layed out
		as 32bit - _only_ CPU is 16bit

>max ram                  14 MB               10 MB
>type                     proprietary board   proprietary & PCMCIA 2.0
>rom                      512K                512K to 2MB

>DISK DRIVES
>floppy                   3.5" 1.44Mb HD      3.5" 880K
>format                   Atari\DOS           Amiga w\DOS utility prg
>hard                     internal optional   internal optional
>type                     2.5" IDE            2.5" IDE


>I/O
>keyboard                 attached w/numeric  attached w/numeric
>mouse/joystick           2 reg 2 analog      2 reg
>serial                   RS-232C             RS-232
>parallel                 BI-directional      Centronics
>video-out                analog RGB\VGA      analog\RGB\VGA\SVGA
>                         composite\RF        composite\RF
>audio-in                 stereo 1/8"mini     no
>     -out                stereo 1/8"mini     stereo RCA
>external floppy          no                  yes
>internal IDE             yes                 yes
>external SCSI            yes SCSI II w/DMA   no
>midi                     in, out/thru        no
>DSP                      yes(1 MHZ trans)    no
>network                  Localtalk LAN       no

>EXPANSION                processor direct    cpu expansion slot
>                         128K cartridge      PCMCIA 2 slot

>SOUND
>resolution               16bit\50Khz         8bit\50Khz
>channels                 8                   4
>input                    yes\stereo          no
>output                   stereo              stereo
>
>VIDEO
>resolution-minimun       320x200             320x200
>          -maximum       640x480             800x600\1280x400\640x960
>palette(colors)          65,536              16.8 million
			  ^^^^^^
			  This should be
			  262,xxx - 18bit

>maximum displayed        65,536(640x400)     256,000(all res)

		This is somewhat misleading.  According to Amigaworld, the
Amiga4000 (and I would imply that the 1200 too, since they have the same
GFx chipset) has a normal palette of 256 colors (out of 16.8mil) in all 
resolution, and that 256,000 colors are achieved using HAM modes.  This is 
somewhat like saying that using the methods of Spectrum, the STe can display 
4096 colors at once in all (but monochrome) resolutions.

>overscan                 yes                 yes

>MISC
>clock                    yes                 optional

>OPERATING SYSTEM
>type                     multitasking gui    multitasking gui
>location                 rom\disk            rom\disk

>SOFTWARE(included)
>                         MultiTOS 4.0        AmigaDOS 3.0
>                         D2D-Hard disk       CrossDOS-MSDOS utility
>                          recording          misc utilities
>                         Audio Fun Machine-
>                          FX processor
>                         misc utilities &
>                          games
>
>PRICE(retail)            $799.00             $699.00

>(->**************************************************************************<-)(-> Kevin Klasmeier  InterNet: Klasmekj@ucunix.san.uc.edu  GEnie: K.KLASMEIER<-)(-> I rather be using a Falcon030. Don't bother me when I'm listening to RUSH<-)(->**************************************************************************<-)


-MikeB