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- From: Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Re: Mac OS vs. TOS (was Re: Falcon Graphics
- Organization: ZOOiD BBS
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:38:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.233855.16681@zooid.guild.org>
- References: <10190@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <1992Sep7.005733.3791@spcvxb.spc.edu> <1992Sep8.031117.11123@actrix.gen.nz>
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- James.Hampton@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >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.
- >
- >
-
- Mr. Hampton,
-
- are you going to write applications that will take advantage of all those
- features? Or are you planning to port current programs to the Falcon?
- Think about it and get back to me....
-
- Mark K.
- E-Mail: kovarski@zooid.guild.org
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