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- From: heidelj@alleg.edu (Jason Heideloff)
- Subject: Re: Falcon 030 <-> 386 40 Mhz
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.124621.17801@pellns.alleg.edu>
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- Organization: Allegheny College
- References: <4515WEN@zelator.in-berlin.de>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:46:21 GMT
- Lines: 56
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- In article <4515WEN@zelator.in-berlin.de> leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan
- Hartmann) writes:
- >
- > Subject: Re: New specs of Atari Falcon (500 Pounds)
- >
- > In <1992Aug13.173628.26085@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu
- (Jeff Young) writes:
- >
- >
- >
- > Hi,
- > I have personnaly seen such a Falcon 030 running and I'm not so exited
- > !
- > Okay, the DSP might be interesting for some applications, but the
- > other features are not so exiting.
- >
- > He is not as fast as a compared 386-40 Mhz which you can buy nowadays
- > for the same price.
- >
- > The Atari Falcon is running only a 68030 at slow 16 Mhz !
- >
- > Seems they did get the last charge from Motorola very cheapo !
- >
- > And all the video titling you can get today with a Genoa Genlock board
- > for the PC for about 400 US$ which comes with free video titler and
- > you are ready to go !
- >
- > For the Atari you still also need a Genlock box, which will be also
- > not very cheap !(and a program !)
- >
- >
- > Also I have now a 24 bits graphics board at 640x480 which is still a
- > difference to 32K colors, which the Atari does only !
- > I would never like to go back to only Hicolor instead of True Color !
- >
- > So Atarri, you should hurry and get the 68040 out, cause otherwise, who
- > will buy such a machine, when there is no software to support it ?
- >
- > Today only the software counts. You can have a very good hardware, but
- > when there are no programs for this machine, nobody will buy it !
- >
- > Same was true with the Archimedes from Arcon, Uk over here in Germany.
- >
- > It had a better hardware than all the STs and Amigas, but it was not
- > supported well enough over here, so only a few were selled !
- >
- > So I don't think that many people will buy the Falcon 030.
- >
- > Also the Falcon 040 will have a hard time, when there is the new P5
- > Intel Chip coming out this chrismas. I gonna buy then a 586
- > motherboard !
-
- That is exactly my point!!!
-
- Jason Heideloff
- heidelj@alleg.edu
-