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From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Modest Dream Machine
Keywords: ST MEGA speed
Message-ID: <6258@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 9 Aug 88 13:59:05 GMT
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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I'd like to get some plausible fantasizing going.  Now that Megabyte has their
accelerator out, how about Atari?  Wouldn't it be nice if the next thing 
after the new ROM-s was true 16 MHz ST-s and MEGAs?  Seems to me that by
altering the custom chips a bit (not an overnight job, but not development
from scratch either) the 16 MHz clock could be taken very good advantage of
(assuming faster memory, too, but why not?)  Or for a little more oomph out
of the same design, a chip with a bit of an instruction cache (68010?).  The
AT of the ST world as it were: a bit faster, and some of the kinks ironed out,
xDbut otherwise the same.