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- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!world!azog
- From: azog@world.std.com (Azog Thoth)
- Subject: Re: Atari
- Message-ID: <Bt1DKz.Bp1@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
- References: <1992Aug13.182309.10852@pellns.alleg.edu> <3107@isgtec.isgtec.com> <1992Aug15.125034.18852@aber.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:50:57 GMT
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- hrs@aber.ac.uk (Herbert Martin Sauro) writes:
-
- [ stuff about bitching about the Falcon deleted ]
- >I agree with Ken, anyway what's wrong with a 68030, what applications
- >Jason do you have that really requires a 68040?
-
- This is IMHO, flames and comments are welcome, as long as they are
- logical...
-
- It seems to me that the people who are now complaing about the Falcon
- are probably weenies who want a NeXT-type of machine for $700. Face it,
- the Falcon (seems) be to offering a helluva lot, for $700. Add a VGA
- monitor, for $200, and a hard drive, for say $300, and youve got a killer
- machine that would do lots of damage to your 'de facto' standards (IBM).
-
- These are probably also the weenies who just want to boast to their
- friends "Oh, my Falcon has a 50MHz 68040 with 128mb of RAM!". Granted
- that there are applications that would require such, like very high
- end graphics, but dont forget, that the Falcon is a _home_ computer,
- and most people will probablty run simple apps on it; games are probably
- the forefront, home accounting, MIDI of course since this is Ataris
- niche, etc. If one wants to run 3-dimensional rendering, then they would
- look elsewhere, such as SGI.
-
- Myself, if and when I get a Falcon, I plan to run the same apps that I
- do now: MIDI, telecommunications, and WP. Having a MIDI machine with a
- DSP in it would be a great advantage. I can record my music via MIDI,
- and lay in vocal tracks via the DSP (if indeed I planned on such a thing...
- most of my music is non-vocal).
-
- Atari could easily build up the Falcon 040 to meet such requirements,
- but they would be beyond my price range. And again, there is the old
- label that Atari has, for being a game company, and this, IMHO, is what
- turns most people off.
-
- One other thing, totally off the above topic, Ive seen many postings
- regarding this empty socket in the Falcon, and people are hoping or
- wondering if itll be for a 386 processor, and have IBM emulation
- pretty much built in... My ideal would be to make it another 68030,
- running concurrent with the existing processor. Imagine the media
- reaction to such a machine? Duel processors under $1000? So far, as I
- know, the only duel processor machines are _very_ high end ones, like
- the Sun Sparc 10 (or whatever its called), and large iron, like VAXen.
- Putting duel processors on the desktop would be a boost to Atari, and
- put it over Amiga.
-
-
- --
- Billy D'augustine
- azog@world.std.com
-
- "Obliteration of mankind. Under a pale grey sky. We shall arise!"
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