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- From: m92mmy@tdb.uu.se (Mattias Myrberg)
- Subject: 'Falcon sucks' etc
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.090010.20895@tdb.uu.se>
- Organization: Alien Dreams Department
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:00:10 GMT
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- Look what I found in comp.sys.atari.st
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- In article 21185 Kosmatos Odisseas writes:
- >In article <1h0eelINNeqh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa399 (Len Stys) writes:
- >>
- >>Atari is already BEHIND in technology with the Falcon030. The only thing
- >>that the Falcon has over ANY other system is the DSP chip.
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- >I disagree with that statement. I'll tell you in what way: For the price,
- >the Falcon has the following things that other computers do not seem to
- >consistently have: (not mentioning the DSP, to show how wrong you are.)
-
- > -> Very fast hard disk port (SCSI-II) that uses the concept of DMA
-
- [Stuff omitted]
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- >I'll stop here, that should be enough. For $799 U.S., you just
- > will not find a computer as capable as the Falcon would be if
- > it were out. Including the Amiga 1200. The Amiga 1200 is pretty
- > close, and will probably sell well because it is a very good deal
- > (that is, regardless of whether the Falcon has a DSP or not.)
-
- > And thanks to Eric R. Smith the Falcon will run on quite a decent
- > multitasking operating system. It has pipes, forks, shared text,
- > universal drives, and looks pretty good. The whole operating system
- > runs pretty smoothly (I have seen Multi-tos at the Atari Messe '92)
- > and I don't think any $799 PC configuration would ever come close
- > to the performance of the Falcon, especially were it running
- > a Microsoft's DOS and WINDOWS setup.
-
- > My point for all this is that It seems to me that at the price,
- > the Falcon030 has _many_ things to make it an overall _much_
- > better computer than similarly priced Macs and PC's. The Amiga 1200
- > seems nice too, although for now, I kinda want a...
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- /Mattias
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- _______
- Mattias Myrberg
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- m92mmy@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se
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