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- From: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Message-ID: <H.ea.tXN2MjUkQNk@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- Organization: InterZONE Design
- Subject: Re: ADVOCACY: Falcon - Why I'm buying it...
- References: <727425006.AA01136@contrast.wlink.nl> <C16EB9.EG3@ecf.toronto.edu>
- Reply-To: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep 5 1992
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:16:36 EST
- Lines: 25
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- In <C16EB9.EG3@ecf.toronto.edu>, AL RASHID SHAHIR writes:
- [Falcon RULEZ D00D!!!!1! stuff deleted...]
- > Sorry, but I played around with a 7 month old developer Falcon, the other day
- > and I never noticed this. I'm not saying that you're lying but maybe the
- > program sucked or something? BTW, I played with it for about 5-6 hrs and never
- > experienced drastic cuts in speed..In fact, speed remained pretty constant!
-
- I guess you didn't try using one of the nice 16-bit colour modes, eh?
- Howard Chu (You know, great ST developer type? Ports GNU C for fun?)
- reported that the system ran about 50% of normal speed in the
- large/many-coloured modes.
-
- > Utterly nonsensical, eh? My what a presumptious attitude! In fact, I am on
- > a IRIS 4D/380S Silicon Graphix system (running IRIX 4.0.5) network with SUN
- > terminals at the moment. It's pretty fast :8 33Mhz Mips processors. In fact,
- > I'm typing this up right now!! In fact, I use it EVERYDAY!! And do you know
- > what?? It MULTITASKS!! And I frequently put windows on top of each other!
- > There! Happy? Sheesh.
-
- Next you're going to tell us there's a VGA monitor hooked up to it,
- right? Only a bozo would use ~700x~500 on an IRIS.
- --
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- Chris Herborth
- cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
-