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Atari ST - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The team, led by Shiraz Shivji, considered "one-upping" the Macintosh by using a full 32-bit chip, namely the NS32032, but in talks, National Semiconductor couldn't supply the chip in the numbers or price that the project needed. |
 | | In retrospect this proved to be lucky, as a prototype built on the NS32032 benchmarked slower than the 16-bit 68000. |
 | | The basic hardware design quickly "gelled" into a form that was almost identical to the ST that eventually shipped. |
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