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- From: dave@admiral.uucp (Dave Litchman)
- Subject: Re: Atari
- Organization: The Admiral's Unix System & The Grid BBS
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 14:32:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.143207.20806@admiral.uucp>
- References: <Bsxz9v.KtB@fc.sde.hp.com> <1992Aug14.124301.17713@pellns.alleg.edu> <1992Aug14.224420.14988@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug14.224420.14988@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, dac@ukc.ac.uk (D.A.Clear) says:
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- >>Myself, I am very impressed with the specs/price ratio so far. I do
- >>feel a little let down by the 16MHz clock speed. I will pay for 32MHz
- >>and fast memory in the Falcon. I'm sorry to say I will not be buying
- >>a 16MHz Falcon.
- >
- >I don't think people realize how fast a Motorola 16 MHz CPU is
- >compared to an Intel 20 Mhz CPU. It is pretty fast!
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- True, but a 16 Mhz Falcon '030 is nowhere near as fast as a 32 Mhz Falcon '030!
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- >Also, the 32 MHz DSP should speed things up.
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- Only in applications written to utilize it. It's not like a Blitter!
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