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- From: qsi@contrast.wlink.nl (Peter Kocourek)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: ADVOCACY: RE: 386SX prices
- Message-ID: <727576933.AA01169@contrast.wlink.nl>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:33:50
- Sender: postmaster@contrast.wlink.nl
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- I. Barnett wrote in a message on 18 Jan 93 to All
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- IB> You are saying that a 386sx is outdated? Do you mean that a
- IB> 32 bit processor that communicates only 16 bits at a time is
- IB> too slow? Gee, didn't I just describe the Falcon030's architecture?
- IB> Wake up. If you contend that the 386sx is useless, then you
- IB> have to admit that the Falcon's (and Mac IIsi, Classic II,
- IB> and LCII) are equally as useless.
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- Whoa! The IIsi has a full 32 bit bus, unlike the LC and LC II. After all,
- the IIsi is a _real_ Mac. :-) The system runs at 20 MHz, and with a 68882
- added to it (as I have) it runs fairly consistently at half the speed of a
- IIfx.
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- YHS:QSI! (A slightly irate IIsi owner :-))
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