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- From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
- Subject: Re: superior designs? (was Re: Falcon Graphics)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep07.120702.124453@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
- Reply-To: kim@vax.mpiz-koeln.mpg.dbp.de
- Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne, F. R. Germany
- References: <Bu1Dyu.IA0@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1992Sep4.151149.8953@newshost.lanl.gov> <52982@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 12:07:02 GMT
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- In <52982@dime.cs.umass.edu> michael@dime.cs.umass.edu (Michael Kieras) writes:
-
- >It all depends on what you mean by superior. Even ignoring the issues of
- >hardware capabilities and software availability, there's aesthetics to
- >consider. Without looking at any other features, I know that I don't want
- >a Falcon because of its "everything in one unit" design. I used a 1040
- >for a couple of years, and I hated the fact that it cluttered my desk with
- >cables, was difficult to move around to type at different angles because
- >of those same cables, that I needed something else to prop my monitor
- >on to get it above the computer, and that the keyboard just plain sucked.
- >Sure, they made it all in one because it kept the cost down. Too bad; I
- >don't care how inexpensive something is if it's aggravating to work with.
-
- >If I didn't have my Mega, with the separate keyboard (and a tactile feel
- >that's orders of magnitude better than the 1040) and the main unit which
- >let's me throw all of the cables behind my desk, I wouldn't even have an
- >ST now.
-
- The Falcon's case is like the 1040ST, but the keyboard feels just
- like the TT's one, which IMHO is even better than the Mega ST's
- keyboard feel. And I have seen ads at the Atari Messe announcing
- separate cases for the Falcon keyboard. Since the keyboard seems
- to have the same layout as the ST keyboards, I don't expect it to
- be difficult to develop a seperate keyboard case for the Falcon
- from the cases already available for the STs.
-
- >>So how many _really_ intend to buy one?
-
- >Not me. Barring unforseen circumstances, I don't expect I will ever buy
- >another Atari computer. I am comfortable with my current system (thanks
- >to MiNT), but there have been too many times that software was available
- >for most other systems that didn't exist for the ST (e.g. raytracers and
- >_good_ word processors, both of which are now available for the ST).
-
- Good word processors??? Signum!2 dates from 1986, but on the PC
- people have been using trash like MS Word 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 until two
- years ago.
- And regarding availability of future standard software, I'd
- expect it will be multimedia stuff of various kinds. And the
- Falcon definitely is very well prepared for this, in terms of
- hardware, so it would be a surprise to me if the corresponding
- software would not become available.
-
- Greetinx, Jan
-
- +- Jan Kim -- X.400: S=kim;OU=vax;O=mpiz-koeln;P=mpg;A=dbp;C=de -+
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