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- From: naffara@crc.ac.uk (Dr. N.A. Affara)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Atari
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.085244.17510@crc.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 08:52:44 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.182309.10852@pellns.alleg.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug13.182309.10852@pellns.alleg.edu>, heidelj@alleg.edu (Jason Heideloff) writes:
- > I am particularly disatisfied with
- > Atari's performance because of the rumors I hear. Rumors which state that
- > the new Falcon will have the 68030. Sure this is impressive for the
- > average Atari user who is primarily an Atari user, but what type of
- > company would put a chip in a new computer that is slowly becoming too
- > slow.
- (Various bits deleted)
-
- Maybe they want to keep the price down.....
-
- > My question is, why would any company, I
- > don't care who it is, invest in technology which has surpassed and will
- > soon be taken over by something else. I would agree with them if they
- > shiped their computers with 68040, but I can't believe that they would
- > like to slow themselves (the company) down by installing yesterday's
- > technology. It just doesn't make sense.
- >
- > Just my $.02 worth.
- >
- > Jason Heideloff
- > heidelj@alleg.edu
-
- I have no idea how much the chips cost but surely the 040 costs much more than
- the 030. Especially as it's "new".
- I thought one of the amazing things about the Falcon was the low price.
- Maybe this is one way they are doing it.
- (I agree it would be nice to have a 040 ;-> )
-
- Just an opinion....
- Phil
- (E-mail naffara@uk.ac.crc)
- --
- Kryten (When Cat says why don't we raise the defensive shields?) "A superlative
- suggestion sir,with only two drawbacks: one,we don't have any defensive shields
- and two,we don't have any defensive shields.I know that,technically,that's only
- one drawback,but it was such a big one I thought I'd mention it twice".
-