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- From: cummins@a.cs.okstate.edu (CUMMINS JOHN WILLI)
- Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying?
- References: <1992Sep10.110919.17361@sci.kun.nl> <18rkrdINN877@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Sep12.094141.18101@sci.kun.nl>
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.063713.143@a.cs.okstate.edu>
- Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 06:37:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep12.094141.18101@sci.kun.nl> leonp@cs.kun.nl (Leon Pillich) writes:
- >- Buying a falcon with 4 meg and a 65 meg hd and a vga monitor.
- > This looks great. With MultiTos it certainly offers what I'm looking for and
- > a lot of nice extras and its not to expensive. Memory can still be
- > expanded and I already have lots of software (partially self-made) that
- > can be used on the falcon. However: it cannot and will never run
- > unix (at least not for free) with X-Windows/OpenLook and I am not
- > very confident in Atari at the moment. They might just make it, because]
- > the falcon is a winning machine and a great MULTI-MEDIA machine, but
- > they have to invest in advertisement and software for it.
- >
-
- Have you fooled with MiNT/gcc/tcsh etc?
- This is about as close to unix as I've ever been. Cost's less than ASV too!
-
- Seriously,
- jc
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