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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Mac OS vs. TOS (was Re: Falcon Graphics
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.031117.11123@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: James.Hampton@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 03:11:17 GMT
- Sender: James.Hampton@actrix.gen.nz (James Hampton)
- References: <Bu1Dyu.IA0@gp <10190@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <1992Sep7.005733.3791@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Organization: Actrix Networks
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- In article <1992Sep7.005733.3791@spcvxb.spc.edu> mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
- >
- > In today's New York Times, there is an ad from J&R Music World
- > for a Mac Classic II for $1199. For that you get:
- >
- > 68030-16mhz mpu
- > 4mb RAM
- > 40mb hard disk
- > keyboard
- > (hi rez mono monitor built in)
- >
- > That is $400 more than the indicated price of the Falcon and for
- > that extra money you get 3mb more RAM, monitor, hard disk, and
- > stable system software. ...not to mention the thousands of software
- > titles available off the shelf (instead of hunting all over town for
- > a music store with a few game titles).
- >
- > Regards,
- >
- > Chris
-
- The pick of the wizard of Wall street is a Mac Classic II? Sounds
- like the wizard turned himself into a clown!
-
- The 68030 in the Classic II is crippled with a 16-bit bus. If you
- also think a tiny mono monitor is some kind of bonus then you must
- be into S&M.
-
- An analyst such as you shouldn't have any problem adding up the
- few extras included in the Falcon. Try adding up what the following
- features would cost in a Mac: DSP with 16-bit stereo I/O, VGA _and_
- NTSC video, SCSI 2, IDE, video overlay/genlock, blitter, etc.
- Include an OS with pre-emptive multitasking and memory protection
- in your total.
-
- Take a week and report back what the extras would cost us. Thanks
- for helping us ignorant folks out.
-
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