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- From: sm86+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stefan Monnier)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying?
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- Date: 12 Sep 92 22:23:37 GMT
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.atari.st: 12-Sep-92 Re: Is Falcon worth
- buying? Joern Moe@fredrik.atari. (2781)
- > Here we go again; comparing a keyboard computer, a toy (with some considerable
- > professional potential though), a niche product to a industrial standard
- > business machine, which because of low prices also are becoming a home computer
- > (but still is designed for business use).
- > Complaints on too litle memory capacity on the falcon is plain stupid. Yes it
- > is limited to 14MB, but taken the main target use for this machine, it's just
- > right. But it is quite possible to upgrade with fast-ram, and then the limit is
- > 4GB! No, it's not as easy as upgrading a PC, one have to by some third-party
- > do-it-yourself expansion kit, but nevertheless possible for those who want.
-
- > --
- > _______________________________________________________
- > / Joern F. Moe / All above is my own personal opinion! \
- > / Oslo, Norway / Any lack of opinion above is also mine! \
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-
- By the way: most Unix boxes run with 16MB RAM.
- They can be upgraded, but the use of Virtual Memory
- makes it useless: the 16MB act like a cache and are generally
- sufficient (unless you run it as a file-server or any other
- demanding application, but it's really not Falcon's purpose)
-
- If Unix can run normally on 16MB I think MultiTOS will
- too ! (and I'm sure VM extensions will appear very soon)
-
- Stefan Monnier
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