Fabrizio Diversi wrote:
>I was away for some time and maybe I missed some news,
>what is the Q60 at 60/80 MHZ ?
A Q60 with a Motorola MC68LC060RC75 chip that runs at 80 MHz.
Equipped with MMU only. FPU versions only with 60 MHz, maybe 66 MHz.
Even without access to the SMSQ/E sources, we now have workarounds for the
biggest SMSQ/E problems, thanks to Mark Swift!! QDOS Classic and Qx0 Linux
are well-designed for the Q60 anyway.
>Is it a joke ? because if it is true I WANT ONE...
I have avoided the usual vapourware announcements, but that don't mean the
Q60 is a joke. I have Q60 machines running for a long time, but no series
production could be started due to non-technical problems. I still can't
tell when these problems will be solved. Maybe contact me by private email.
>I already have a q40 and I am very happy with it ,
>maybe the q60 has a PCI bus ?
Look at the Atari clone Milan: It has the PCI bus, which means it is slower
than the Q40 and the PCI graphics card for the Milan is not produced any
longer.
The Q60 sticks with the Q40 concept: Its own 32 Bit QL compatible graphics
directly coupled to the 68060 bus. The Q60 uses a modified Q40 mainboard.
As the Q60 has on-board graphics and supports IDE, Serial, Parallel and
Ethernet peripherals (and more), I still see not much need for PCI.
Especially not for QDOS/SMSQ, which don't even support all the major
hardware features of the Q40 yet.
>I am asking this because I have just finished to
>install a second IDE + Serial Card on the q40 to have
>ser3 and ser4 available and found that ISA card on the
>market was not so easy.
Good multi IO cards for Q40/Q60 are in full production. I have no problem
to get them but I don't have the time to become a trader. If no trader is
willing to help, please contact me (privately) anyway.
All the best
Peter
