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"God answers all prayers...but sometimes he answers 'No.'"
                                        Corporal Klinger, M*A*S*H

                   SOME STUFF ABOUT THE JAGUAR
             (NOT MUCH THOUGH, ONLY A TABLE REALLY)

When  "Atari  Explorer  Online" released  a  Jaguar  special  in
September  I guessed there would be literally zillions  of  other
magazines  that would end up using information taken from  there.
Not  ST  NEWS,  though.  Well,  I just sortof took the  core  and
instead  of writing a full-fledged Jaguar feature article I  just
slammed  it in the "Did you know that..." column.  But the  table
below  I  just had to use,  but couldn't do it in the  "Did  you"
column. So here goes...

                  Jaguar        3DO         SNES         GENESIS
-------------+--------------------------------------------------
Bus Width    |   64 bits      32 bits      16 bits       16 bits
             |
Rendering/   |
Animation    |850+ Million  64 Million    1 Million     1 Milln
Speed        |pixels/second pixels/second pixels/second pixels/sc
             |
Bus          |    106.4          60           ?             ?
Bandwidth    |Megabytes/sec Megabytes/sec
             |
Colors       | 16.7 Million  16.7 Million    256           64
             |
True Color   |    Yes           Yes          Yes           No
Graphics     |  (32-bit)      (24-bit)     (16-bit)
             |
Processors   | 5:GPU + DSP   4:ARM60+DSP  2:65C816      2:68000
             | Object Proc.    2 Graphic    DSP           Z80
             | Blitter+68000   Processors
             |
Stereo 16-bit|
CD Quality   |    Yes           Yes          No            No
Sound?       |
             |
MIPS         |     55            ?           ?             ?
             |
Custom HW    |
for 3D       |    Yes            No          No            No
Objects      |
             |
Multi-       |
Processing   |    Yes            ?           ?             ?
Architecture |
             |
Object       |
Processor    |    Yes            No          No            No
             |
S-Video Out  |    Yes           Yes         Yes            No
             |
RF Out       |    Yes           Yes         Yes           Yes
             |
Composite Out|    Yes           Yes         Yes            ?
             |
RGB Out      |    Yes            ?           ?            Yes
             |
Resolution   |  720x576       640x480     512x448       320x224
-------------+---------------------------------------------------

And that's it, really.

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