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From: hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: ST Hardware
Message-ID: <482@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 10:48:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 15 10:48:12 1985
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Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx
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In article <1037@mtgzz.UUCP> bds@mtgzz.UUCP (b.d.szablak) writes:
>The August issue of Antic has a picture of the ST motherboard and a VERY
>brief description of some of the chips on it. Does anyone have any more
>information on this? In particular, it mentions the CPU as being an
>68000P8, what does the P8 mean? Also, it says there is a screen controller
>chip or something like that, which is suppose to off load the 68000. Any
>more info on that chip. Finally, there is a DMA chip, but someone stated
>in this newsgroup earlier that the floppy used a serial interface, is this
>correct info? The biggest shame about the ST is that it didn't get written
>up in very good detail even in a magazine devoted to atari computers...

	MC68000P8 is Motorola's part number for an 8 MHz 68k in a plastic
package, not to be confused with a MC68008P8 which is a 68000 with an
8-bit external bus.

	I, too, would like to see more technical info on the ST.  Can
someone out there oblige?


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