Mega ST

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The Mega ST was launched in 1987 by Atari aimed at the professional market. It had a re-designed case consisting of a separate keyboard and CPU unit. It also included a Blitter chip to speed up graphics, and a battery backed clock.

The Mega ST computers were shipped with TOS 1.02 and featured several new features as follows:

  • BLiTTER chip (for faster graphics).
  • Internal expansion bus.
  • Separate keyboard and CPU.
  • Either two or four megabytes of RAM.
  • Peripheral co-processor slot (for 68881 coprocessor, etc.).

It was eventually replaced by the upgraded Mega STE.

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