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- From: tkld@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Kevin Davidson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Falcon questions
- Message-ID: <TKLD.92Dec14153118@burns.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 15:31:18 GMT
- Sender: tkld@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
- Organization: HCRC/CogSci
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- I'm a 1040stfm owner with an external floppy and SM124 monitor.
- Up until the Falcon was announced I'd been considering getting a 4meg
- upgrade and a 105meg hard disk.
- I *would* use MiNT more if I had more memory and a hard disk. (In
- real life I use Unix systems). I'm now considering saving up for a Falcon
- and/or upgrading my current setup.
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- I have some questions:
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- Does the Falcon take Simms ? If yes I may get the XtraRam deluxe,
- then get a 1meg Falcon later on.
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- I can get a SCSI disk now and move that to the Falcon, so I could get
- a 1meg diskless Falcon and just plug it in, couldn't I?
- I know my external disk won't work. Will a SCSI floptical ?
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- I'd like a tape drive and maybe someday a cd-rom (PhotoCD compatible
- pref). If I get an ICD Link I can get just about any SCSI device,
- right? And they'll work with my wife's LCII too ?
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- Does (will) MultiTos (I won't buy a Falcon till it comes with MultiTos)
- support the AppleTalk LAN connector ? Or would I need a 3rd party
- APPLESHARE.XFS ?
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- How about ISO9660.XFS for CD-roms?
- I've heard rumours that the Falcon will be CD-I compatible; compatible
- enough for me to pick up CD-I stuff from a department store and run it
- at home ? Or just enough to read the disks ?
- Proper support for Minix-type filesystems (ie backups and fileselector)?
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- Does the Falcon's SCSI-2 support `fast SCSI-2' ?
- Can I mix'n'match SCSI and SCSI-2 devices with no speed penalty.
- I think to use `fast SCSI-2', all devices must be `fast' (synchronous ?)
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