> 
> processors!!) were printed in a German Jaguar online magazine..Bear in

> could be an April Fools Issue..).. Interesting none the less though!!
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>  Schlie#lich haben wir noch aus geheimer Quelle, die wir nicht nennen
>  d+rfen einige Daten +ber Atari's Nachfolge-Konsole names Jaguar 2
>  erfahren, der aber leider erst 1996 erscheinen soll:
>  
>         Size: 10.5" x 12" x 3.5"
>     Controls: Power on/off
>      Display: Resolution up to 1600 x 600 pixels (50 Hz/interlace)
>               32-bit "Extended True Color" display with 16,777,216
>               colors simultaneously (additional 8 bits of supplimental
>                graphics data support possible)
>               Multiple-resolution, multiple-color depth objects
>               (monochrome, 2-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit) can be
>                used simultaneously
>        Ports: Cartridge slot/expansion port (64 bits)
>               RF video output
>               Video edge connector (video/audio output)
>               (supports NTSC and PAL; provides S-Video, Composite, RGB
>                outputs, accessible by optional add-on connector)
>               Four controller ports
>               Digital Signal Processor port (includes high-speed
>                synchronous serial input/output)
>  Controllers: Eight-directional joypad
>               Size 5" x 4.5" x 1.5", cord 7 feet
>               Six fire buttons (A, B, C, D, E, F)
>               Pause and Option buttons
>               12-key keypad (accepts game-specific overlays)
>  
>    The Jaguar 2 has seven processors, which are contained in three
> chips.  Two of the chips are proprietary designs, nicknamed "Tom&" and
> "Jerry&".  The third chip is a standard Motorola 68EC020 used as a
> coprocessor.  Tom and Jerry are built using an 0.3 micron silicon
> process.  With proper programming, all seven processors can run in
> parallel. 
> 
>    - "Tom&"
>      - 1,250,000 transistors, 292 pins
>      - Graphics Processing Unit (processor #1)
>        - 64-bit RISC architecture (64/128 register processor)
>        - 64 registers of 128 bits wide (shadow-buffering)
>        - Has access to all 2 x 64 bits of the system bus
>        - Can read 128 bits of data in one instruction
>        - Rated at 127.902 MIPS (million instructions per second)
>        - Runs at 63.951 MHz
>        - 2 x 32K bytes of zero wait-state internal SRAM (matrix)
>        - Performs a wide range of high-speed graphic effects
>        - Programmable
>      - Object processor (processor #2)
>        - 64-bit RISC architecture
>        - Programmable processor that can act as a variety of different
>          video architectures, such as a sprite engine, a pixel-mapped
>          display, a character-mapped system, and others.
>      - Blitter (processor #3)
>        - 64 bits read and write at the same time! (multibuffering!)
>        - 8K read buffer (fifo)
>        - 8K write buffer (lifo)
>        - Performs high-speed logical operations
>        - Hardware support for Z-buffering and Gouraud shading
>      - Texture Mapping Engine (processor #4)
>        - 64-bit RISC
>        - 64 bits
>        - Programmable risc processor
>        - 256K "texture-work-ram" of zero wait-state internal CACHE
>        - capable of doing about 900000 texture-mapped polyons,
>          without textures there can do 2500000 polyons.
>        - realtime Gouraud and Phong shading
>      - J/MPEG "COMBI" Chip (processor #5)
>        - 64 bits
>        - not programmable!
>        - 8K own data rom (with sinus) table
>        - 128K CACHE (fifo)
>        - realtime J/MPEG decompression via CACHE (fifo)
>      - DRAM memory controller
>        - 4 x 64 bits
>        - Accesses the DRAM directly
>  
>    - "Jerry&"
>      - 900,000 transistors, 196 pins
>      - Digital Signal Processor (processor #6)
>         - 32 bits (32-bit registers)
>         - Rated at 53,3 MIPS (million instructions per second)
>         - Runs at 53.3 MHz
>         - Same RISC core as the Graphics Processing Unit
>         - Not limited to sound generation
>         - 96K bytes of zero wait-state internal SRAM
>         - CD-quality sound (16-bit stereo 50KHz)
>         - Number of sound channels limited by software (minimum 16!!)
>         - Two DACs (stereo) convert digital data to analog sound
>           signals
>         - Full stereo capabilities
>         - Wavetable synthesis, FM synthesis, FM Sample synthesis, and AM
>           synthesis
>         - A clock control block, incorporating timers, and a UART
>  
>    - Motorola 68EC020 (processor #7)
>      - Runs at 26.590MHz
>      - perfect 68000 emulation
>      - General purpose control processor
>  
>     Communication is performed with a high speed 64-bit data bus, rated
>    > at 2400 megabits/second.  The 68000 is only able to access 16 bits
>     of this bus at a time.
>  
>     The Jaguar 2 contains eight megabytes (64 megabits) of fast
>     page-mode DRAM, in eight chips with 1024 K each.
>  
>  Der Preis des Ger+tes ist uns leider nicht bekannt, Atari wartet noch
>  ab wie teuer die Konkurenzsysteme auf dem US-Markt werden.
>  
>  Sobald wir mehr Informationen und erste Statements von Entwickler haben
>  werden wir eine spezielle Ausgabe im Laufe des Monates rausbringen...
>