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- From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
- Subject: Re: Falcon, Falcon who has got a Falcon
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.164042.28237@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <1993Jan20.194026.25748@westminster.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:40:42 GMT
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- In article 25748@westminster.ac.uk, lmvec@westminster.ac.uk (William Hargreaves) writes:
- >Why have Atari made the Falcon a 32-bit machine with only a 16-bit data bus.
- >Surely, this will mean it only runs half as fast as it should.
- >
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- Oh, please... let's don't open THIS can of worms again! :)
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- Don't sweat it, Will. It was an economic/marketing decision by Atari (perhaps
- not one of their better ones). The machine is still plenty fast and should
- only be of concern to those who base their lives around numbers.
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