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- From: Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Is Falcon worth buying????
- Organization: ZOOiD BBS
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:09:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.230955.15392@zooid.guild.org>
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- Nice arguments you brought up. Some interesting points you had there.
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- 4000,- DM is a big chunk of money for a 486/33 MHz considering the average
- earning rates in germany (at least in west-germany). However, the regular
- packages (Falcon030 with/without HD) do not include a monitor so I would
- imagine that a complete Falcon030 with HD, Monitor, 4 Meg RAM is over
- 2000,- DM. Still a rather big price to pay and big corporations, even in
- europe where Atari Corp. makes most of its money, will not buy it since
- they can't provide the service that IBM, Compaq, Digital can.
- I have to disagree with you TOTALLY with MultiTOS and OS/2 2.0 being similar.
- If anyone will "borrow" any ideas, it will be Atari from IBM's OS/2 2.0 but
- you have to realise that you can't just borrow from IBM. YOu have to pay
- BIG bucks in order to use their patents. Microsoft pays IBM 20-25 Million US
- dollar in order to have the rights to use IBM patents. Will MultiTOS become
- as nice as OS/2 2.0? NO, it will never be. The early beta versions of
- MultiTOS were slow, unreliable and unstable. Nothing much has really changed.
- IBM's OS/2 2.0 software devision employees 300 programmers while Atari has
- only 3 (maybe a few more, they don't like to give this information away ;-)).
- You can't say anything about OS/2 2.0 unless you sit down in front of a PC
- and see it do its wonders. Forget about other OSs, OS/2 will be the way of
- the future. Unless Unix Labs come up with their "Destiny OS", IBM is on the
- road of victory. So far I have heard some of the new MultiTOS options and
- they seemed to be borrowed from other GUIs.
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- True, the Tramiels are after money. Believe me, they need it BADLY. Will the
- Falcon030 save them? No. Why? Like you said, it's the nineties and not the
- eighties. ;-)
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- There is some truth to the matter that the computer only counts but seriously,
- all decisions are made by the Tramiels. Everything from production to what
- Atari emplyees can say.
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- Mark Kovarski
- E-Mail: kovarski@zooid.guild.org
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